On Nov 11, 2:37 am, Jeremy Sanders <jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - I need to add support to a program for dates and times. The built-in > Python library seems to be okay for many purposes, but what I would like > would be Unix epoch style times (seconds relative to some date), covering a > large period from the past to the future. What would be nice would be a > library which can take floating point seconds from an epoch. > > Does anyone know of a library which can convert from human style dates and > times to a floating point epoch and back again? I expect I could fudge the > fractional seconds with the built-in library, but I can't see how to get > dates in the past. >
What does "dates in the past" mean?? Please be more specific about the earliest date that you want to be able to handle. Python's datetime starts at 0001-01-01. Somebody mentioned the time module, which is implementation-dependent but typically starts at 1970-01-01 . What functionality do you need, other than two-way conversion between days_since_epoch and (proleptic Gregorian) date/time? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
