[reportlab-users] Bug in invariant?
Robin Becker
robin at reportlab.com
Mon Nov 2 05:47:18 EST 2009
Thanks for this report; certainly didn't know about the timezone issue. I'll try
and get this into the repository today.
Roberto Alsina wrote:
> Hello, when trying to generate PDFs with invariant=1 in local_rl_config.py so
> that tests don't fail because of timestamps in rst2pdf we found that files
> still were different when generated by two persons.
>
> And the difference was this:
>
> $ ls -l 65*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ralsina users 16703 2009-10-31 16:34 65_patrick.pdf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ralsina users 16703 2009-10-31 16:35 65_roberto.pdf
>
> The only difference between them is...
>
> /CreationDate (D:20000101000000+06'00')
>
> /CreationDate (D:20000101000000+03'00')
>
> As you can see, the date is being fixed, but the timezone is not. I suspect
> when the support for gmt offset was added, this slipped.
>
> The fix is to change PDFDate like this (or something similar):
>
> class PDFDate:
> __PDFObject__ = True
> # gmt offset now suppported
> def __init__(self, invariant=rl_config.invariant, dateFormatter=None):
> if invariant:
> now = (2000,01,01,00,00,00,0)
> self.dhh = 0; self.dmm = 0
> else:
> import time
> now = tuple(time.localtime(_getTimeStamp())[:6])
> from time import timezone
> self.dhh, self.dmm = timezone // 3600, (timezone % 3600) % 60
> self.date = now[:6]
> self.dateFormatter = dateFormatter
>
> def format(self, doc):
> dfmt = self.dateFormatter or (
> lambda yyyy,mm,dd,hh,m,s:
> "D:%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d%+03d'%02d'" %
> (yyyy,mm,dd,hh,m,s,self.dhh,self.dmm))
> return format(PDFString(dfmt(*self.date)), doc)
>
>
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Robin Becker
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