Ticket #13299: python_timezone_woes.txt

$ date
So Jul  1 10:57:41 CEST 2018

$ cat /etc/timezone
Europe/Vienna

$ ls -la /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Mai 19 17:06 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vienna

$ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2018
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 25 00:59:59 2018 UT = Sun Mar 25 01:59:59 2018 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 25 01:00:00 2018 UT = Sun Mar 25 03:00:00 2018 CEST isdst=1 gmtoff=7200
/etc/localtime  Sun Oct 28 00:59:59 2018 UT = Sun Oct 28 02:59:59 2018 CEST isdst=1 gmtoff=7200
/etc/localtime  Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2018 UT = Sun Oct 28 02:00:00 2018 CET isdst=0 gmtoff=3600

$ timedatectl
                      Local time: So 2018-07-01 10:59:06 CEST
                  Universal time: So 2018-07-01 08:59:06 UTC
                        RTC time: So 2018-07-01 08:59:06
                       Time zone: Europe/Vienna (CEST, +0200)
       System clock synchronized: yes
systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
                 RTC in local TZ: no



$ date
So Jul  1 10:57:41 CEST 2018

with patch:
$ python2
>>> from MythTV import datetime
>>> import time
>>> tnow = time.time()
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(tnow).strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S %z")
'20180701110458 +0200'


without patch:
$ python2
>>> from MythTV import datetime
>>> import time
>>> tnow = time.time()
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(tnow).strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S %z")
'20180701100955 +0100'