From aefa44b30c2d2a4103523afb9f59317e0386f68a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Driessen <vincent@3rdcloud.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 23:48:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Store birth and death values as UTC dates.

---
 rq/worker.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rq/worker.py b/rq/worker.py
index 64f6501..aec17dc 100644
--- a/rq/worker.py
+++ b/rq/worker.py
@@ -195,11 +195,10 @@ class Worker(object):
             raise ValueError('There exists an active worker named \'%s\' '
                              'already.' % (self.name,))
         key = self.key
-        now = time.time()
         queues = ','.join(self.queue_names())
         with self.connection._pipeline() as p:
             p.delete(key)
-            p.hset(key, 'birth', now)
+            p.hset(key, 'birth', times.format(times.now(), 'UTC'))
             p.hset(key, 'queues', queues)
             p.sadd(self.redis_workers_keys, key)
             p.expire(key, self.default_worker_ttl)
@@ -212,7 +211,7 @@ class Worker(object):
             # We cannot use self.state = 'dead' here, because that would
             # rollback the pipeline
             p.srem(self.redis_workers_keys, self.key)
-            p.hset(self.key, 'death', time.time())
+            p.hset(self.key, 'death', times.format(times.now(), 'UTC'))
             p.expire(self.key, 60)
             p.execute()