The DateTime module was changed to no longer import the string module,

but one of the uses of string.atoi wasn't fixed.  There also wasn't a
test for this. :(

Fixed bug in handling numneric time-zone offsets. We need to subtract,
rather than add the offset, since the offset is the offset of the
local time from UT, not the other way around.

lib/python/DateTime/DateTime.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 ##############################################################################
 """Encapsulation of date/time values"""
 
-__version__='$Revision: 1.73 $'[11:-2]
+__version__='$Revision: 1.74 $'[11:-2]
 
 
 import re,sys, os, math,  DateTimeZone
@@ -34,11 +34,8 @@ to_month=tm[yr%4==0 and (yr%100!=0 or yr%400==0)][mo]
 EPOCH  =(to_year+to_month+dy+(hr/24.0+mn/1440.0+sc/86400.0))*86400
 jd1901 =2415385L
 
-
 numericTimeZoneMatch=re.compile(r'[+-][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]').match #TS
 
-
-
 class _timezone:
     def __init__(self,data):
         self.name,self.timect,self.typect, \
@@ -364,7 +361,7 @@ def _tzoffset(tz, t):
         return DateTime._tzinfo[tz].info(t)[0]
     except:
         if numericTimeZoneMatch(tz) is not None:
-            return atoi(tz[1:3])*3600+atoi(tz[3:5])*60
+            return -int(tz[1:3])*3600-int(tz[3:5])*60
         else:
             return 0 # ??
 
@@ -918,6 +915,7 @@ class DateTime:
                 # Check for and skip day of week:
                 if DayOfWeekNames.has_key(s):
                     continue
+                    
             raise self.SyntaxError, st
 
         day=None

lib/python/DateTime/tests/testDateTime.py

@@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ class DateTimeTests (unittest.TestCase):
 
         assert ddays == 3000000L, ddays
 
+    def test_tzoffset(self):
+        '''Test time-zone given as an offset
+        '''
+        from time import gmtime
+
+        dt = DateTime('Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:41:03 -0400')
+        self.assertEqual(gmtime(dt.timeTime())[:6],
+                         (2001,7,24,13,41,3))
 
     def testISO8601(self):
         ''' iso 8601 dates '''