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Re: Time shift problem when calling svn_time_to_cstring (when using Python)?

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2006-06-08 18:04:48 CEST

Subversion times are all stored in GMT. The svn_time_to_cstring() function
keeps the output in GMT (as denoted by the 'Z' suffix).
svn_time_to_human_cstring(), however, shows localized time (and reveals the
timezone offset on which it based its calculations):

% python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 2 2005, 12:11:53)
[GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time, svn.core
>>> t = time.time()
>>> svn.core.svn_time_to_cstring(int(t * 1000000))
'2006-06-08T16:02:11.542558Z'
>>> svn.core.svn_time_to_human_cstring(int(t * 1000000))
'2006-06-08 12:02:11 -0400 (Thu, 08 Jun 2006)'
>>>

As you can see, that second date is four hours off from the first, but the
offset is display as four hours from GMT, so all is as expected.

I don't think you should need to change any of dates in the test expected
output. Are you seeing something that makes you think otherwise? (Got
specific examples?)

Mathias Weinert wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> When I wanted to update the test script for mailer.py I encountered the
> following problem for which I need your advice.
>
> After running the test (including mailer-tweak.py) I found different
> dates/times in my output compared to the one from the repository. There
> is a difference of exactly 9 houres for every date.
>
> So my first thought was that this has to do something with my local
> time zone. But when the function svn_time_to_cstring is supposed to
> return GMT there shouldn't be any problem.
>
> When I call svn_time_to_cstring with 0 as argument I get
> 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z so again it seems as if this function is
> independent from my local time zone.
>
> Can anybody tell me if it's okay to change the date in the expected
> output file or did I miss something?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Mathias
>
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>
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