One more UTC bugfix for the road #6
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So, most of the UTC repairs we performed last year were correct, except for this one. Unix "epochs" by themselves are timezone-less. It's when they are "interpreted" as human-readable timestamps that they are parsed by python incorrectly. When these epochs (from time()) are directly compared to each other, they are timezone-less, and do not need to be offset. But, when they are "fed" to python to be converted as human-readable, those rare cases are when the timezones get lost. We've already handled correctly in the past when human timestamps are compared to human timestamps --- that all works fine --- no repair needed there.
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So, most of the UTC repairs we performed last year were correct, except for this one.
Unix "epochs" by themselves are timezone-less. It's when they are "interpreted" as human-readable
timestamps that they are parsed by python incorrectly.
When these epochs (from time()) are directly compared to each other, they are timezone-less,
and do not need to be offset.
But, when they are "fed" to python to be converted as human-readable, those rare cases are
when the timezones get lost.
We've already handled correctly in the past when human timestamps are compared to human
timestamps --- that all works fine --- no repair needed there.