[Tutor] time comparison question

[Liam Clarke]

Eep, you're right Brian, mea culpa.


On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:16:40 -0500, Brian van den Broek
<bvande at po-box.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Anna Ravenscroft said unto the world upon 2004-11-26 08:19:
> > Brian van den Broek wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to build some Python 2.3.4 code which will determine if the
> >> actual time when it is run is after the date and time specified in
> >> some data. I want my data to be able to specify the target date/time
> >> in a various levels of detail. I.e., I want 2004-11-28 13:25,
> >> 2004-11-28, 11-28, 11-28 13:25 to all be accepted.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> thanks to Anna, G. Rodrigues, and Liam for the replies. The code that
> was posted using datetime didn't seem so scary after all :-)
> 
> As evidence accrues, I think I am going to just have to gather myself
> together and surmount the aversion to classes and other aspects of OOP.
> At least in this case, code has shown it isn't too tricky.
> 
> One minor quibble with something Liam posted. Of struct_time objects he
> said:
> 
> > The 9 value tuple has year to microsecond, and day of the week
> > contained, so you can use it if you wish.
> 
> For future googlers, my understanding is that the first 6 elements of a
> struct_time tuple are the date and time from year down to the second
> (microseconds playing no role), and the last three are weekday, day of
> year, and DST flag.
> 
> Anyway, having read the replies, it looks like my problem is solved.
> Thanks folks!
> 
> 
> 
> Best to all,
> 
> Brian vdB
> 
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