[Tutor] Re: Could I have used time or datetime modules here?

[Brian van den Broek]

Brian van den Broek said unto the world upon 2004-12-07 23:57:
> Dick Moores said unto the world upon 2004-12-07 12:04:
> 

<SNIP all of Dick and most of Brian's reply>

> The note you reference:
> 
> date2 is moved forward in time if timedelta.days > 0, or backward if 
> timedelta.days < 0. Afterward date2 - date1 == timedelta.days. 
> timedelta.seconds and timedelta.microseconds are ignored. OverflowError 
> is raised if date2.year would be smaller than MINYEAR or larger than 
> MAXYEAR.
> 
> presupposes you are adding a timedelta to a datetime as in Tim's 
> suggestion. It makes no promises if you were doing something goofy like 
> I was. (If that is what you were trying to get me to see, sorry, but I 
> missed it.)

Hey Dick and all,

I've taken a look at your code and finally seen what you meant, Dick.
You were trusting datetime (along the same lines that Tim suggested to
me) and thus weren't facing the problems I'd caused for myself. Sorry
for missing your point before. Thanks,

Brian vdB

> 
> I hope this clarifies things some :-)

Ah, irony!