Stephen Hansen wrote:
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com
<mailto:stef.mien...@gmail.com>> wrote:
hello,
I want to handle datetime vars in a general way, so I use the
default time-format,
so I can use the standard cinversion procedures.
Personally, I love mx.DateTime; its the best date/time library around.
But, Python's built in datetime isn't too bad and is similar and
built-in if you don't want to use a third-party library.
thanks guys,
mx works a bit better ....
But:
>>> birthday = mx.DateTime.Date(1960,3,3)
>>> birthday
<mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '1960-03-03 00:00:00.00' at 6211e0>
>>> age = mx.DateTime.now() - birthday
>>> print "Age in days", age.days
18113.722499758693
>>> print "Age in years", age.days / 365
49.626636985640253
I really can't quite fathom why you'd want to use something so
low-level as time.mktime... or just about anything in the time module :)
I didn't know anything better,
but (forgive me if I'm wrong) I find mx almost as low-level :
>>> mx.DateTime.strptime('01-01-53',"%d-%m-%y")
<mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2053-01-01 00:00:00.00' at 1cddc60>
while all we human know ..
I agree it's better not to work with string dates, but that's the way
how we human write things down ;-)
So I must use at least something like strptime.
cheers,
Stef
If you want to handle dates in a general way, I'd use one of the
general-purpose date/time handling libraries. They're far more capable
and easier to use.
HTH,
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