Hi, I have been around long enough to know that, due to time-zones, daylight saving and whatnot, time-related stuff is complicated. So even if I think something connected with time should exist, there may well be a very good reason why it does not.
My problem: I need to deal with what I call a 'period', which is a span of time limited by two dates, start and end. The period has a 'duration', which is the elapsed time between start and end. The duration is essentially a number of seconds, but in my context, because the durations are usually hours or days, I would generally want to display the duration in a format such as "dd-hh:mm:ss" My (possibly ill-founded) expectation: There is a standard class which encapsulates this sort of functionality. My (possibly insufficiently researched) conclusion: Such a standard class does not exist. What is at fault here? My expectation or my conclusion? Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under constuction. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
