From 6cdd7a0433aaf9d28ebb912276c704e755e64543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 18:39:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add mktime_tz() which turns a date_tz 10-tuple into a standard Unix timestamp. --- Lib/rfc822.py | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Lib/rfc822.py b/Lib/rfc822.py index dc5e7144975..1ea2f5f8d9c 100644 --- a/Lib/rfc822.py +++ b/Lib/rfc822.py @@ -468,6 +468,17 @@ def parsedate(data): return t[:9] else: return t +def mktime_tz(data): + """Turn a 10-tuple as returned by parsedate_tz() into a UTC timestamp. + + Minor glitch: this first interprets the first 8 elements as a + local time and then compensates for the timezone difference; + this may yield a slight error around daylight savings time + switch dates. Not enough to worry about for common use. + + """ + t = time.mktime(data[:8] + (0,)) + return t + data[9] - time.timezone # When used as script, run a small test program. # The first command line argument must be a filename containing one