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  • Paul Sijben
    #1

    Windows XP timezone language issue

    I ran into an internationaliz ation issue. I need a consistent idea about
    the timezone my application is running on. However when I run the following:
    >>import time
    >>time.tzname
    I get back ('West-Europa (standaardtijd) ', 'West-Europa (zomertijd)')
    which is in dutch (the language of the host machine) and verbose.
    I wanted to get ('CEST','CET') or something international so I can work
    with itin the same way on all platforms.

    That is the right way to find out the timezone in a consistent way
    across platforms (windows/linux/mac) and languages?

    Paul
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    • MRAB
      #2
      Re: Windows XP timezone language issue

      On Jun 13, 7:31 am, Paul Sijben <paul.sij...@xs 4all.nlwrote:
      I ran into an internationaliz ation issue. I need a consistent idea about
      the timezone my application is running on. However when I run the following:
      >>import time
      >>time.tzname
      >
      I get back ('West-Europa (standaardtijd) ', 'West-Europa (zomertijd)')
      which is in dutch (the language of the host machine) and verbose.
      I wanted to get ('CEST','CET') or something international so I can work
      with itin the same way on all platforms.
      >
      That is the right way to find out the timezone in a consistent way
      across platforms (windows/linux/mac) and languages?
      >
      Well, time.timezone will return the timezone as an integer.

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        • Paul Sijben
          #3
          Re: Windows XP timezone language issue

          MRAB wrote:
          On Jun 13, 7:31 am, Paul Sijben <paul.sij...@xs 4all.nlwrote:
          >I ran into an internationaliz ation issue. I need a consistent idea about
          >the timezone my application is running on. However when I run the following:
          > >>import time
          > >>time.tzname
          >>
          >I get back ('West-Europa (standaardtijd) ', 'West-Europa (zomertijd)')
          >which is in dutch (the language of the host machine) and verbose.
          >I wanted to get ('CEST','CET') or something international so I can work
          >with itin the same way on all platforms.
          >>
          >That is the right way to find out the timezone in a consistent way
          >across platforms (windows/linux/mac) and languages?
          >>
          Well, time.timezone will return the timezone as an integer.
          >
          true, I am wondering if that is enough for my app. (with some of the odd
          timezones in the world and DTS issues and all....

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