Why does datetime.timedelta only have the attributes 'days' and 'seconds'?
Jon Ribbens
jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu
Tue Apr 19 17:36:57 EDT 2022
On 2022-04-19, Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>> On 19 Apr 2022, at 19:38, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> * I /think/ this is the year used for leap-day calculations, and
>> why some leap centuries are skipped as it is really less than a
>> quarter day per year, so eventually one gets to over-correcting
>> by a day.
>
> Leap century is skip unless it’s a leap quadra century.
Indeed, which is why "leap=not year & 3" works for years in
range(1901, 2100). Which I have found useful before when
programming in an assembly language that has no division
operation ;-)
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