[darcs-users] Locale Oddity?

[Lele Gaifax]

Max Battcher ha scritto:
> I just completed transferring the logic to marshall from ``darcs changes 
> --xml-output -s`` into my Patch model class.  In Darcsweb this is the 
> BuildPatchList class that creates Darcsweb Patches, which are very 
> simple python object.  (In my case the class is named ChangeLogHandler 
> and it marshals Patch objects, which are derived from 
> django.db.models.Model, which gives me out of the box relational 
> database serialization (ORM).)

This sounds very interesting! I'll jump to google :)

> 
> In testing this class I'm having a problem in trying to parse the 
> local_date field of a patch tag.  If I run darcs from my command line in 
> the field I get the time zone "Eastern Standard Zone", but for some 
> reason when darcs is called via the python script I appear to be getting 
> the time zone "Ame", which of course isn't parsing as a time zone on the 
> Python side.
> 
> Any ideas on what might be causing this?
> 

Most probably, the environment under which the two executions run is not 
the same, in particular regarding the LANG and TZ variables. In 
trac-darcs (and tailor) I usually force them, simply by "TZ=UTC LANG=C 
darcs ..."

hth, ciao,
lele.