On May 9, 5:12 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > ?
I'm sure there is a hack for doing something like what you suggest, but it would be messy. The problem is that I get a datetime object returned and division really isn't something you can do to one of those objects. Besides, if I had seconds returned, I would want to multiply by 60, not divide. Maybe I misunderstand you. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
