Bug in time.timezone of Python 2.1.1

[Norman Vine]

Ivan J. Wagner writes:
>Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 8:03 PM
>To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
>Cc: jason@tishler.net
>Subject: Bug in time.timezone of Python 2.1.1
>
>
>I maintain a CVS archive (using cvs 1.11.0-1) on a Cygwin 1.3.2 install
>and use ViewCVS 0.7 to access it.  ViewCVS uses python and today I
>upgraded from python 2.1-1 to 2.1.1-1.  However the upgade 
>broke the Age
>field in ViewCVS.  The Age field is the time span between the 
>file's check
>in and today.  The Age field is displayed when you view a CVS directory
>listing.  I looked at the ViewCVS sources and tracked the problem to
>time.timezone.  In 2.1 it returns 18000 but in 2.1.1 it returns
>1834228892.  Does anybody have any day what might be causing 
>this problem?
>
>Thanks,
>Ivan Wagner

YES

see attached patch

Cheers

Norman Vine
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