tomorrow in yyyymmdd format

[Gerhard Häring]

* Bjorn Pettersen <BPettersen at NAREX.com> [2002-06-18 18:36 -0600]:
> > From: Gerhard Häring [mailto:gerhard at bigfoot.de] 
> > Giulio Cespuglio wrote in comp.lang.python:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > > 
> > > We all know that if I want to get the present GMT date in yyyymmdd 
> > > format I should say
> > > 
> > > 	print time.strftime("%Y%m%d", time.gmtime() )
> > > 
> > > Now, what about tomorrow? [...]
> > > 
> > > 	time.strftime("%Y%m%d", time.gmtime(time.time() + 60*60*24))
> > 
> > No, there's nothing better. Unless you're using the DateTime 
> > type from the eGenix mxExtensions:
> 
> Sure there is :-) time.mktime() can take a "malformed" time tuple and
> do something sensible with it. You can therefore get a time tuple from
> gmtime, add one to the day position and call time.mktime() on the
> result:
> 
> >>> x = (2002, 2, 29, 0, 31, 42, 2, 170, 0)
> >>> time.gmtime(time.mktime(x))
> (2002, 3, 1, 7, 31, 42, 4, 60, 0)
> >>>

Pure luck that this works. Don't complain if it stops workin in Python
2.7 and your code breaks ;-)

Gerhard
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