add mac compatibility
diff --git a/Demo/rpc/rpc.py b/Demo/rpc/rpc.py
index 83cc954..f44b3e4 100644
--- a/Demo/rpc/rpc.py
+++ b/Demo/rpc/rpc.py
@@ -163,9 +163,37 @@
except ImportError:
uid = gid = 0
import time
- return make_auth_unix(int(time.time()), \
+ return make_auth_unix(int(time.time()-unix_epoch()), \
socket.gethostname(), uid, gid, [])
+_unix_epoch = -1
+def unix_epoch():
+ """Very painful calculation of when the Unix Epoch is.
+
+ This is defined as the return value of time.time() on Jan 1st,
+ 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.
+
+ On a Unix system, this should always return 0.0. On a Mac, the
+ calculations are needed -- and hard because of integer overflow
+ and other limitations.
+
+ """
+ global _unix_epoch
+ if _unix_epoch >= 0: return _unix_epoch
+ import time
+ now = time.time()
+ localt = time.localtime(now) # (y, m, d, hh, mm, ss, ..., ..., ...)
+ gmt = time.gmtime(now)
+ offset = time.mktime(localt) - time.mktime(gmt)
+ y, m, d, hh, mm, ss = 1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0
+ offset, ss = divmod(ss + offset, 60)
+ offset, mm = divmod(mm + offset, 60)
+ offset, hh = divmod(hh + offset, 24)
+ d = d + offset
+ _unix_epoch = time.mktime((y, m, d, hh, mm, ss, 0, 0, 0))
+ print "Unix epoch:", time.ctime(_unix_epoch)
+ return _unix_epoch
+
# Common base class for clients