need a little help with time

[nephish@xit.net]

Hey there.
i have a time string (created with strftime) then read from a file,
i am having some trouble understanding how to get the difference
between times.
i know i can structime(times tring) and get a time value, but i dont
know how to manipulate it.

basically, if i have string 2005-08-24 09:25:58
and another string 2005-08-24 09:28:58

how can i tell how many minutes, hours, seconds, days, months etc..
have passed between the first string and the second ?

or, if there is a good tutorial on this kind of thing, please post a
url.

thanks

shawn

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Re: need a little help with time

nephish@xit.net wrote:[color=blue]
> Hey there.
> i have a time string (created with strftime) then read from a file,
> i am having some trouble understanding how to get the difference
> between times.
> i know i can structime(times tring) and get a time value, but i dont
> know how to manipulate it.
>
> basically, if i have string 2005-08-24 09:25:58
> and another string 2005-08-24 09:28:58
>
> how can i tell how many minutes, hours, seconds, days, months etc..
> have passed between the first string and the second ?
>
> or, if there is a good tutorial on this kind of thing, please post a
> url.[/color]

Look at the module datetime.

Diez

[Eddie Corns]

Re: need a little help with time

nephish@xit.net writes:
[color=blue]
>Hey there.
>i have a time string (created with strftime) then read from a file,
>i am having some trouble understanding how to get the difference
>between times.
>i know i can structime(times tring) and get a time value, but i dont
>know how to manipulate it.[/color]
[color=blue]
>basically, if i have string 2005-08-24 09:25:58
>and another string 2005-08-24 09:28:58[/color]
[color=blue]
>how can i tell how many minutes, hours, seconds, days, months etc..
>have passed between the first string and the second ?[/color]
[color=blue]
>or, if there is a good tutorial on this kind of thing, please post a
>url.[/color]

Either the datetime module or mxDateTime from

http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxDateTime.html

which is more extensive.

[nephish@xit.net]

Re: need a little help with time

the mxDateTime thing should be great, i have to pass this stuff back
and forth with MySQL DateTime fields,
thanks a lot !

[Randy Bush]

Re: need a little help with time

i am doing disgusting looking junk based on calendar. example

now = calendar.timegm (time.gmtime())
aWeek = 7*24*60*60
print time.strftime(' %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.gmtime(now + aWeek))

randy