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copied!<p>I've been using <a href="http://www.aczoom.com/blockhosts" rel="nofollow">blockhosts</a> for some time now, and it's been great so far. I recently updated Ubuntu to 10.10, and I started to see some erratic behaviour. Upon a closer inspection, I noticed a bunch of errors in /var/log/blockhosts.log:</p> <p><code>ERROR: failed to parse date for ip 188.17.155.25, using now value: time data '2010-11-01 03:04:02 AMT' does not match format '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z'</code></p> <p>The fact of the timezone appearing as "AMT" (Armenian time) is strange. My timezone is set as:</p> <p><code>$ cat /etc/timezone<br> Europe/Amsterdam</code></p> <p>I took a look at the code of <code>blockhosts.py</code> where the date is handled and checked, and I saw that is being handled as <code>time</code> objects.</p> <p>The following code shows the problem:</p> <pre><code>import time now = time.time() str1 = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z', time.localtime()) str2 = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z') print str1 print str2 </code></pre> <p>The output is the following:</p> <pre><code>2010-12-06 16:18:47 AMT 2010-12-06 16:18:47 CET </code></pre> <p>The value of <code>time.tzname</code> is <code>('CET', 'CEST')</code>, so I'm not sure where the "AMT" is coming from... </p> <p>Any help will be appreciated!</p> <p><strong>Updates:</strong></p> <p>From the suggestions in the comments:</p> <ul> <li><code>/etc/localtime</code> is not a symlink to <code>/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam</code>, but they are the same file:</li> </ul> <p><code>$ ls -l /etc/localtime<br> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2917 2010-11-18 09:35 /etc/localtime<br> $ ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam<br> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2917 2010-11-11 09:35 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam<br> $ diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam</code></p> <ul> <li>there is no TZ environment variable:</li> </ul> <p><code>$ echo $TZ<br> $ env | grep TZ</code></p> <ul> <li>I logged in as another user and run the script with the same result:</li> </ul> <p><code>2010-12-07 11:12:09 AMT<br> 2010-12-07 11:12:09 CET</code></p>

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