commit abe8eb0a3044fd1a23a2a46cc4bb61e4e022b7c0
author Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> Tue May 13 20:28:15 2003 +0000
committer Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> Tue May 13 20:28:15 2003 +0000
tree d5f887810d9ef9014b43cbc8a41428c294a5b721
parent ac6df95d07aa3951f8bfc6febce132e09850db73

Call time.tzset (if available) just before calculating possible timezones from time.tzname.

Lib/_strptime.py

diff --git a/Lib/_strptime.py b/Lib/_strptime.py
index a08a426..f32acc0 100644
--- a/Lib/_strptime.py
+++ b/Lib/_strptime.py
@@ -284,6 +284,10 @@
         # Set self.__timezone by using time.tzname.
         #
         # Empty string used for matching when timezone is not used/needed.
+        try:
+            time.tzset()
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass
         time_zones = ["UTC", "GMT"]
         if time.daylight:
             time_zones.extend(time.tzname)