Add mktime_tz() which turns a date_tz 10-tuple into a standard Unix timestamp.
diff --git a/Lib/rfc822.py b/Lib/rfc822.py
index dc5e714..1ea2f5f 100644
--- a/Lib/rfc822.py
+++ b/Lib/rfc822.py
@@ -468,6 +468,17 @@
return t[:9]
else: return t
+def mktime_tz(data):
+ """Turn a 10-tuple as returned by parsedate_tz() into a UTC timestamp.
+
+ Minor glitch: this first interprets the first 8 elements as a
+ local time and then compensates for the timezone difference;
+ this may yield a slight error around daylight savings time
+ switch dates. Not enough to worry about for common use.
+
+ """
+ t = time.mktime(data[:8] + (0,))
+ return t + data[9] - time.timezone
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