[Zope-dev] RE: [Zope] Time module in python scripts

[Tim Hoffman]

Hi

I wonder why DateTime().parts() results is different to 
time.localtime(time.time()) or at least returns less info than the
latter.

It would seem a change to DateTime would be in order ?

Tim


On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 06:30, sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
> I hope you all don't mind, but I've moved this to Zope-dev.  I would like to
> propose that it be possible without modification (default behavior) in a
> future version of Zope to import the time module and its methods safely into
> TTW Python Scripts.
> 
> I haven't used this yet in TTW code (I've had to work around it), but it
> seems like it might be good to un-restrict it, especially for CMF
> installations that heavily utilize date metadata.
> time.localtime(time.time()) is, AFAICT, the only way to determine if you are
> in standard or DST at any point in time during the year.  You can't have a
> page-template appropriately display correct times for content from multiple
> time-zones without this (I'm sure many CMF installations will need this),
> and it seems silly to write an external method for this; allowing import of
> the time module is a good workaround, but I would suggest it be enabled by
> default in Zope.
> 
> My particular use-case is AP newswire stories which are in EST/EDT.  The
> timezone offset changes for this twice a year, and having a fixed
> calculation based upon some assumption of a fixed timezone offset in my own
> timezone (PST/PDT) won't work.  I need to be able to know my own timezone
> offset to do the math, and for this I need to use
> time.localtime(time.time())[8] to get it.  I'm sure "community" sites and
> things like blogs, or anything else that works across the geographic
> boundaries of differing time zones could use this too.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Sean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris McDonough [mailto:chrism@zope.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:01 PM
> To: Chris Muldrow
> Cc: 'zope@zope.org'
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Time module in python scripts
> 
> 
> Apparently.  See /lib/python/Products/PythonScripts/README.txt or the
> Zope Developer's Guide Security chapter for info on how to enable it...
> 
> - C
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 16:49, Chris Muldrow wrote:
> > I'm trying to do
> > Import time
> > Time=time.time()
> > 
> > in a Python Script, but I'm getting login prompts and "Error Value: You
> are
> > not allowed to access time in this context" messages. Is the time module
> one
> > that's restricted in Python Script?
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
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