Am Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:35:23 +0000 schrieb MikeyG:
> Hi,
>
> I have a date string in the ctime() format ('Sat Mar 5 10:38:07 2005')
> and I want to know how long ago that was in whole days.
>
> So far I have:
>
> import time
> import datetime
> age =
> (datetime.date.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.strptime(date.strip()))) -
> datetime.date.today()).days
>
> Which is an absurd number of function calls and is possibly not even
> correct (something in the docs about mktime() taking localtime whereas
> my string is in UTC)
Try %Z:
time.mktime(time.strptime("Sat Mar 5 10:38:07 2005 UTC",
"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z"))
--> 1110015487.0
time.mktime(time.strptime("Sat Mar 5 10:38:07 2005 CEST",
"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z"))
--> 1110011887.0
HTH,
Thomas
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