Before, we were calling datetime.datetime.strftime('%s.%f') to convert
a datetime to epoch seconds + microseconds. However, the '%s' format
isn't actually part of Python's library. Rather, Python passes that on
to the system C library, which is typically glibc. Now, glibc takes
the '%s' format and helpfully* applies the current timezone as an
offset. This gives bogus results on machines where UTC is not the
system timezone. (Yes, some people really do that.)
For example:
>>> import os
>>> from swift.common import utils
>>> os.environ['TZ'] = 'PST8PDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0'
>>> float(utils.last_modified_date_to_timestamp('1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000'))
28800.0
>>>
That timestamp should obviously be 0.
This patch replaces the strftime() call with datetime arithmetic,
which is entirely in Python so the system timezone doesn't mess it up.
* unhelpfully
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