formatted 'time' data in calculations

Stephen Chapman schap at offenbachers.com
Wed Jan 7 12:45:12 EST 2009


Here is how I have done adjustments to time in the past.  This is mostly 
Date related but it may help

today = datetime.date.today()
wkdiff = datetime.timedelta(weeks=1)
daydiff = datetime.timedelta(days=1)
startdate=(today-wkdiff)-daydiff

this will subtract 1 week and 1 day from today.
Stephen


Ross wrote:
> There seems to be no shortage of information around on how to use the 
> time module, for example to use time.ctime() and push it into strftime 
> and get something nice out the other side, but I haven't found 
> anything helpful in going the other way.
>
> That is, given some formatted text describing times - is there 
> something that makes it easy to calculate time differences, or do I 
> have to index my way through the string pulling out characters, 
> converting to integers etc...
>
> Data is formatted:
>
>    t1 = 09:12:10
>    t2 = 11:22:14
>
> I want to calculate tdiff = t2-t1
>
> Any suggestions? (Thanks for anything you can offer)
>
> -Ross
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