On May 10, 7:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing a reminder program for our Zimbra email client. One of > the requirements I was given was to automatically increment or > decrement the display to show something like the following: > > 5 minutes until appointment > > or > > 10 minutes past your appointment > > Either way, as each minute goes by, I need to increment it or > decrement it. I am having trouble finding a coherent way to take the > same date and compare just the number of minutes between them to find > the difference. Like if I have an appointment at 9:30 a.m. and the app > is loaded at 8 a.m., I need to know the number of minutes or hours and > minutes until the appointment. > > I have looked at the dateutils module and it has many comparison > methods, but they seem to only return the number of days or seconds. >
Ermmm ... what's wrong with minutes = seconds / 60.0 hours = minutes / 60.0 ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list