Date Comparison and Manipulation Functions?

[W. eWatson]

W. eWatson wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
>> On Aug 30, 10:41 am, "W. eWatson" <notval... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> What I'm trying to do is adjust date-time stamped file names for date 
>>> and
>>> time errors. The software program collects through a period that roughly
>>> coincides with night hours every day and according to the OS clock. It
>>> sometimes happens that a user sets the clock to the wrong day or hour,
>>> possibly both. Possibly even the month or year. I'm trying to allow a 
>>> user
>>> the opportunity to repair the problem. (Date-time stamp part of the 
>>> name is
>>> yyyymmdd_hhmmss.) Correcting the date needs to be done easily and
>>> accurately. For example, if on August 25, he mistakenly sets the date to
>>> July 25, and discovers this problem on the real Oct. 5, he should be 
>>> able to
>>> shift all dates from July 25 through Sept. 5 to Aug. 25 through early 
>>> Oct.,
>>> allowing for day oddities in a month during the period. (I hope I got 
>>> those
>>> dates right; otherwise, I think you get the idea. In other words, he 
>>> needs
>>> to shift about 40 days of data to the correct dates.)
>>
>> ... all of which is absolutely nothing to do with your surprise at the
>> result of whatever.plus(months=6).
> Really? It opened new insights for me. The example above is not the only 
> correction I need to deal with. Further, the author is likely to soon 
> clarify some of the date rules in the tutorial that were not obvious or 
> mentioned there.
>>
>> So for some period from recorded date X to recorded date Y, the
>> recorded dates of out of kilter by D days. X = Jul 25 2008, Y Sep 5
>> 2008, and D is 31 (days from Jul 25 to Aug 25). All you have to do is
>> (pseudocode):
>>
>> if X <= recorded_date <= Y:
>>     new_recorded_date  = recorded_date.plus(days=D)
>>
>> HTH,
>> John
>>
> 
> 
Strange how my post got hooked into this side spur. I'll re-post.

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