Re: [web2py] Re: Difference between datetime.now and datetime.now()

2013-11-07 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
One can do request.now = request.utcnow For applications which are usually accessed from the same time-zip as the server the current server makes it easier to set dates. On Thursday, 7 November 2013 10:14:03 UTC-6, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > Digressing slightly: it seems to me that one would

Re: [web2py] Re: Difference between datetime.now and datetime.now()

2013-11-07 Thread Jonathan Lundell
Digressing slightly: it seems to me that one would ordinarily almost always want to use datetime.utcnow() rather that datetime.now(); likewise request.utcnow. At least in the database. On 7 Nov 2013, at 8:03 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Thursday, November 7, 2013 10:06:57 AM UTC-5, Jonathan Lundel

Re: [web2py] Re: Difference between datetime.now and datetime.now()

2013-11-07 Thread Anthony
On Thursday, November 7, 2013 10:06:57 AM UTC-5, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > On 7 Nov 2013, at 6:00 AM, Anthony > > wrote: > > Actually, my original explanation wasn't quite correct -- I made the > corrections in the original post (same conclusion though -- #2 should be > preferred, but they shou

Re: [web2py] Re: Difference between datetime.now and datetime.now()

2013-11-07 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On 7 Nov 2013, at 6:00 AM, Anthony wrote: > Actually, my original explanation wasn't quite correct -- I made the > corrections in the original post (same conclusion though -- #2 should be > preferred, but they should both result in nearly the same value). I don't see > how using datetime.now w

[web2py] Re: Difference between datetime.now and datetime.now()

2013-11-07 Thread Anthony
Actually, my original explanation wasn't quite correct -- I made the corrections in the original post (same conclusion though -- #2 should be preferred, but they should both result in nearly the same value). I don't see how using datetime.now would lead to the error you are getting, but go ahea

[web2py] Re: Difference between datetime.now and datetime.now()

2013-11-07 Thread at
Thanks Anthony for the explanation. We am using #1 and occasionally get '*insufficient data left in message*', could it be because of datetime.now? On Thursday, 7 November 2013 17:56:47 UTC+5, Anthony wrote: > > Is there any difference between following two statements: >> #1 >> from datetime imp

[web2py] Re: Difference between datetime.now and datetime.now()

2013-11-07 Thread Anthony
> > Is there any difference between following two statements: > #1 > from datetime import datetime > db.my_table.insert(updated=datetime.now) > > and > #2 > from datetime import datetime > db.my_table.insert(updated=datetime.now()) > I believe they should result in (almost) the same entry into t