Windows XP timezone language issue

[Paul Sijben]

I ran into an internationalization issue. I need a consistent idea about
the timezone my application is running on. However when I run the following:
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

 

[MRAB]

I ran into an internationalization issue. I need a consistent idea about
the timezone my application is running on. However when I run the following:

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.

 

[Paul Sijben]

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....