I always use request.now.I think of utfnow as a utility in case there ar multiple servers in different dimezones.
On Nov 3, 9:46 pm, Pystar <aitoehi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have another question, > Whats the best way to get the time to use for a time stamp field in a > database insert? request.utcnow? I would like to do time comparisons > between when a record was inserted into a database and the present > time, so would request.utcnow suffice? and if it would, how do I get > the time elapsed value? between the 2 values? > thanks > > On Nov 4, 3:41 am, Pystar <aitoehi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I would like some clarification on the Decimal type field in DAL. From > > the book, in the complete signature for Decimal type is "decimal(n,m)" > > where; > > n -- total number of digits > > m -- total number of digits after the decimal point > > if I am to specify a decimal type field that has 4 digits after the > > decimal place how would I specify that? since I cant really determine > > before hand how many digits in total the decimal number would contain. > > > Would specifying the field as "decimal(, 4)" work i.e. leave out the > > "n" value ? or is there something I am not getting? > > > Thanks for your swift response. > > Pystar
