Thanks for posting. I sure am sorry that I wasted your time. I should have started the post stating I am using jython 2.2.3 and apparently it has no datetime module. But I will keep datetime in mind for future reference.
Since I had no datetime I cobbled out the following. Seems to work thus far. Posted here for the general amusement of the list. Regards, jvh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ from time import * s = '05/11/2007 1:23 PM' t = s.split() mdy = t[0].split('/') hrMn = t[1].split(':') if t[2] == 'PM': hrMn[0] = int(hrMn[0]) + 12 tuple =(int(mdy[2]), int(mdy[0]), int(mdy[1]), hrMn[0], int(hrMn[1]), 0,0,0,0) print tuple eTime = mktime(tuple) print 'eTime', eTime -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list