On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to ask about the possibilities to do some basic manipulation > on timestamps - such as incrementing a given time (hour.minute - > string) by some minutes. > Very basic notion of "time" is assumed, i.e. dateless, > timezone-unaware, DST-less etc.
My first suggestion would be to work with Unix times (that is, store your time as "seconds since 1970", also called a time_t). That's forced to be on UTC (but ignoring leap seconds) so you don't have to worry about timezones or DST, and incrementing by X minutes is simply adding X*60 to it. It makes your job a lot easier! ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list