Hmm, now that I think about it, we *can* use time.time() and 'date' if
running verbose.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_strftime.py b/Lib/test/test_strftime.py
index 288162c..28ae4c6 100755
--- a/Lib/test/test_strftime.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_strftime.py
@@ -9,13 +9,15 @@
if __name__ == '__main__':
verbose = 1
-now = 850499890.282 # time.time()
-fromdate = 'Fri Dec 13 12:58:10 EST 1996' # os.popen('date')
+if verbose:
+ now = time.time()
+ fp = os.popen('date')
+ fromdate = string.strip(fp.readline())
+ fp.close()
+else:
+ now = 850499890.282 # time.time()
+ fromdate = 'Fri Dec 13 12:58:10 EST 1996' # os.popen('date')
-## now = time.time()
-## fp = os.popen('date')
-## fromdate = string.strip(fp.readline())
-## fp.close()
nowsecs = int(now)
gmt = time.gmtime(now)
now = time.localtime(now)