Standard class for time *period*?
Gary Herron
gherron at digipen.edu
Mon Mar 27 12:43:02 EDT 2023
The Python standard library module datetime seems to be what you want.
It has objects representing date/times, and deltatimes (i.e.,
durations). These can be timezone aware or not as you wish.
Dr. Gary Herron
Professor of Computer Science
DigiPen Institute of Technology
On 3/27/23 6:00 AM, loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been around long enough to know that, due to time-zones, daylight
> saving and whatnot, time-related stuff is complicated. So even if I
> think something connected with time should exist, there may well be a
> very good reason why it does not.
>
> My problem:
>
> I need to deal with what I call a 'period', which is a span of time
> limited by two dates, start and end. The period has a 'duration',
> which is the elapsed time between start and end. The duration is
> essentially a number of seconds, but in my context, because the
> durations are usually hours or days, I would generally want to display
> the duration in a format such as "dd-hh:mm:ss"
>
> My (possibly ill-founded) expectation:
>
> There is a standard class which encapsulates this sort of functionality.
>
> My (possibly insufficiently researched) conclusion:
>
> Such a standard class does not exist.
>
> What is at fault here? My expectation or my conclusion?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>
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