Q: finding distance between 2 time's

[Anders J. Munch]

jkv wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> What i usally do is to convert the two times to seconds since epoch and
> compare the two values in seconds. You can use time.mktime to convert
> localtime to seconds since epoch.

There's no need to convert - simply retrieve the times as absolute times to 
begin with:

   file_age_in_seconds = time.time() - os.path.getmtime(filename)

Only convert to local time for presentation.

- Anders