[Tutor] time question

[Lloyd Kvam]

Is there any reason for not using MxDateTime?
http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/mxDateTime.html

It may be overkill for your purposes, but I would think that's generally better than the alternatives.

Rob Andrews wrote:
> 
> Okay, I'll admit my ignorance. (It's pretty well documented by now.
> heehee)
> 
> I'm working on an application to track the progress of someone who has
> quit smoking (or to provide info for someone thinking of quitting), and
> the whole application is based around the passage of time for its
> calculations.
> 
> If anyone wishes to risk going blind by actually reading this
> alpha-release-wannabe source file, it's located here:
> 
> http://www.lowerstandard.com/python/pyQuit.py
> 
> But fortunately I have a nice, specific question. After user input, I
> have the quit time stored thusly:
> 
> >>> import time
> >>> quitTime
> (2001, 8, 22, 9, 45, -1, -1, -1, -1)
> 
> I then convert this to a float, and determine the difference between the
> current time and the quitting time:
> 
> >>> quitTime1 = time.mktime(quitTime)
> >>> currentTime = time.time()
> >>> quitTime1
> 998491499.0
> >>> currentTime
> 998578178.33000004
> >>> timeDifference = currentTime - quitTime1
> >>> timeDifference
> 86679.330000042915
> 
> At this point, I face the slightly tedious task of converting this time
> difference (expressed in seconds) into something more tangible. I'd like
> to report "You have been nicotine free for 6 weeks, 5 hours, and 4
> minutes." (for example). So far, this means a several-step process of
> dividing the seconds down into years, then the remainder down to (lunar)
> months, then to weeks, days, and minutes.
> 
> Does anyone know a way to do this more directly, elegantly, or briefly?
> 
> Rob
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