On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Dan Sommers <d...@tombstonezero.net> wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 09:14:22 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: > >> Oh, and another thing I can do with a datetime that I can't do with a >> unix timestamp. I can represent the day I was born. > > At the risk of dating myself, the day I was born is -231094800.
Which, according to a Unix build of Python, is quite representable: >>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d",time.gmtime(-231094800)) '1962-09-05' This isn't a problem. Now, if you were considering yourself for a romantic candle-lit dinner and a movie afterward, then maybe there's some risk in dating yourself :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list