Re: days since epoch

2006-02-17 Thread Marius Gedminas 
The datetime module is usually more convenient for date/time
arithmetic.  However in your particular case, you may find the
time.time() function convenient.  It returns the number of seconds
since the epoch.  To get the number of days divide the number of
seconds by 86400.

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Re: days since epoch

2006-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
As suggested by Alex the datetime module makes this easy:

py> import datetime
py> epoch = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(0)
py> print epoch
1970-01-01 00:00:00
py> today = datetime.datetime.today()
py> d = today - epoch
py> print d
13196 days, 9:50:44.266200
py> print d.days # timedelta object
13196

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days since epoch

2006-02-17 Thread eight02645999 
hi
how can i get the number of days since epoch using the time module?
or do i have to manually do the arithmetic?
thanks

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Re: days since epoch

2006-02-16 Thread Alex Martelli 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> hi
> how can i get the number of days since epoch using the time module?
> or do i have to manually do the arithmetic?

Try the datetime module -- better suited to computing days, than the
time module, IMHO.


Alex
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