[egenix-users] Has the gmtoffset return value changed?

[Mike C. Fletcher]

I have a little module "sunriseset.py" that calculates (strangely 
enough) sun rise and set times, and which was working fine with older 
versions of mxDateTime.  However, this morning I received a bug report 
that it's no longer working.  As far as I know there have been no 
changes to the module itself, and prior to this (when I checked it many 
months ago) its self-check passed fine.  That would have been with an 
earlier mxDateTime release.

I have, of course, since updated mxDateTime when I updated mxTextTools. 
 The thing is, now the reported values from gmtoffset appear to have 
been reversed in sign (that is, what was 5h is now -5h).  Obviously the 
sign is always just an arbitrary choice (hence the need to declare which 
direction increases/decreases in specifications of time systems), but 
I'm surprised that it would have changed sign between releases of the 
mxDateTime library.

Anyway, I can work around this if I know which versions of mxDateTime 
return positive, and which negative, values  for the same time-zones 
(i.e. when the switch occurs).  Marc-André, anyone?

Enjoy,
Mike

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  Mike C. Fletcher
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