Issue 23388: datetime.strftime('%s') does not take timezone into account (original) (raw)

The following occured on linux with python 3.4.2, the machines local timezone is tz2:

import datetime

tz1 = datetime.timezone.utc; tz2 = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(seconds=3600)); tz3 = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(seconds=18000))

d1 = datetime.datetime.now(tz=tz1); d2 = datetime.datetime.now(tz=tz2); d3 = datetime.datetime.now(tz=tz3)

d1.timestamp(), d2.timestamp(), d3.timestamp() (1422962091.603168, 1422962091.603181, 1422962091.603185)

d1.strftime('%s'), d2.strftime('%s'), d3.strftime('%s') ('1422958491', '1422962091', '1422976491')

Or in other words:

d1.strftime('%s') == str(int(d1.timestamp())), d2.strftime('%s') == str(int(d2.timestamp())), d3.strftime('%s') == str(int(d3.timestamp())) (False, True, False)

Expected result of the last line would be (True, True, True).