#306 os.path.getmtime timezone issue

[Josh Rooke-Ley]

I been trying to get the file modification time on a file but it looks like the getmtime is applying the timezone offset on a time that is already in UTC time. Here is some sample code:

Python 2.2.2 (#0, Jun 10 2008, 15:05:00) [C] on symbian_s60
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>>>
>>> import os,time
>>>
>>> file_path = 'C:\\test_filemod.txt'
>>> test_file = open(file_path,'w')
>>> test_file.write("foobar")
>>> test_file.close()
>>> test_file_mod = os.path.getmtime(file_path)
>>> test_file_mod
1219446036
>>> test_now = time.time()
>>> test_now - test_file_mod
-14400.0
>>>

I am running this code on a nokia n95 with EDT set as the timezone (time.altzone=14400) so it looks like getmtime is getting a time that is exactly off by my timezone.

If I run the same code on my desktop machine it looks like this:

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:17)
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>>> import os,time
>>>
>>> file_path = '/tmp/foo.txt'
>>> test_file = open(file_path,'w')
>>> test_file.write("foobar")
>>> test_file.close()
>>> test_file_mod = os.path.getmtime(file_path)
>>> test_file_mod
1219431742.0
>>> test_now = time.time()
>>> test_now - test_file_mod
0.66671490669250488
>>>

I am running this on a 3Gig N95

[Josh Rooke-Ley]

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This looks like its the same as #2000698.