Best practise for passing time as arguments
Thomas Jollans
tjol at tjol.eu
Sat Oct 14 13:44:18 EDT 2017
On 14/10/17 19:34, Stefan Ram wrote:
> ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>> a post. Use whatever is appropriate in the special case
>> given, or - to write a general library -, learn the design
>> of a good existing library, like Time4J, first.
>
> Though in many cases, an ISO 8601 time string
> represented by a (named )Python tuple should
> be sufficient for a time stamp.
>
> E.g., ( year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds,
> zone_offset ).
>
Python provides a datetime (also: date, time, timedelta) type. Use it.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html
When working with time zones, the standard library needs a little help.
Luckily, there's a module for that. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz
-- Thomas
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