Re: Extended date and time

2007-11-12 Thread John Machin
On Nov 12, 8:46 pm, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > 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 > > implementatio

Re: Extended date and time

2007-11-12 Thread Jeremy Sanders
John Machin wrote: > 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 . >

Re: Extended date and time

2007-11-11 Thread John Machin
On Nov 11, 2:37 am, Jeremy Sanders 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 pas

Re: Extended date and time

2007-11-11 Thread D.Hering
On Nov 11, 4:46 pm, "D.Hering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 10, 10:37 am, Jeremy Sanders > I also have trouble with date/times with whats available. Off the top > of my head... converting a numpy array of epochs to some datetime > object and back. > > If I had the time I'd contribute additi

Re: Extended date and time

2007-11-11 Thread D.Hering
On Nov 10, 10:37 am, Jeremy Sanders 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 pa

Re: Extended date and time

2007-11-11 Thread Colin J. Williams
Adam Pletcher wrote: > The "time" module in the standard library does epoch, and conversions. > > Get current local time in seconds since epoch (1970): > >> >> import time >> >> now_secs = time.time() >> >> print now_secs > 1194790069.33 > > Convert to a struct_time object for conversions: >

RE: Extended date and time

2007-11-11 Thread Adam Pletcher
The "time" module in the standard library does epoch, and conversions. Get current local time in seconds since epoch (1970): >>> import time >>> now_secs = time.time() >>> print now_secs 1194790069.33 Convert to a struct_time object for conversions: >>> now_struct = time.localtime(now_secs)