Neatify the _timezones table and remove a misleading comment about
inaccuracies in mktime_tz().
diff --git a/Lib/rfc822.py b/Lib/rfc822.py
index 9d76f6d..9e9faee 100644
--- a/Lib/rfc822.py
+++ b/Lib/rfc822.py
@@ -632,11 +632,11 @@
# instead of timezone names.
_timezones = {'UT':0, 'UTC':0, 'GMT':0, 'Z':0,
- 'AST': -400, 'ADT': -300, # Atlantic standard
+ 'AST': -400, 'ADT': -300, # Atlantic (used in Canada)
'EST': -500, 'EDT': -400, # Eastern
- 'CST': -600, 'CDT':-500, # Centreal
- 'MST':-700, 'MDT':-600, # Mountain
- 'PST':-800, 'PDT':-700 # Pacific
+ 'CST': -600, 'CDT': -500, # Central
+ 'MST': -700, 'MDT': -600, # Mountain
+ 'PST': -800, 'PDT': -700 # Pacific
}
@@ -713,14 +713,7 @@
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.
-
- """
+ """Turn a 10-tuple as returned by parsedate_tz() into a UTC timestamp."""
if data[9] is None:
# No zone info, so localtime is better assumption than GMT
return time.mktime(data[:8] + (-1,))