Fixed an issue with wrong timezones being used for EPOCH calculation.

pallets · Feb 22, 2012 · 59f3bf7 · 59f3bf7
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 It's Dangerous Changelog
 ------------------------
 
+Version 0.12
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Fixed a problem with the local timezone being used for the epoch
+  calculation.  This might invalidate some of your signatures if you
+  were not running in UTC timezone.  You can revert to the old behavior
+  by monkey patching itsdangerous.EPOCH.
+
 Version 0.11
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

diff --git a/itsdangerous.py b/itsdangerous.py
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
         import json as simplejson
 
 
-EPOCH = time.mktime((2011, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
+# 2011/01/01 in UTC
+EPOCH = 1293840000
 
 
 def constant_time_compare(val1, val2):