Displaying future times

[ryan k]

On Oct 17, 1:52 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:20:06 +0000, ryan k wrote:
> > I have a schedule of times in the future that I want to display in a
> > timezone the user sets. There is a useful module
> >http://www.purecode.com/~tsatter/python/README.txt(at that URL) with a
> > function that takes seconds from the epoch and a time zone and returns
> > what is basically a datetime object.
>
> > My question is how to I display the seconds from the epoch for a
> > datetime object (which will be a datetime in the future) for the UTC
> > timezone?
>
> Is this a trick question? Won't the answer be "The same way you would for
> a datetime in the past"?
>
> To get the number of seconds from the epoch, see the function timegm() in
> the calendar module.
>
> --
> Steven.

Not a trick question at all... Cheers.