parsing a date string
MikeyG
mikewantsnospam at mephwantsnospam.net
Sun Mar 6 14:35:23 EST 2005
Hi,
I have a date string in the ctime() format ('Sat Mar 5 10:38:07 2005')
and I want to know how long ago that was in whole days.
So far I have:
import time
import datetime
age =
(datetime.date.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.strptime(date.strip()))) -
datetime.date.today()).days
Which is an absurd number of function calls and is possibly not even
correct (something in the docs about mktime() taking localtime whereas
my string is in UTC)
Any suggestions?
Thanks
MikeG
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