On May 14, 9:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 14, 9:00 am, HMS Surprise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Thanks for posting. I sure am sorry that I wasted your time. I should > > have started the post stating I am using jython 2.2.3 and apparently > > it has no datetime module. But I will keep datetime in mind for future > > reference. > > > Since I had no datetime I cobbled out the following. Seems to work > > thus far. Posted here for the general amusement of the list. > > > Regards, > > > jvh > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > from time import * > > s = '05/11/2007 1:23 PM' > > t = s.split() > > mdy = t[0].split('/') > > > hrMn = t[1].split(':') > > if t[2] == 'PM': > > hrMn[0] = int(hrMn[0]) + 12 > > > tuple =(int(mdy[2]), int(mdy[0]), int(mdy[1]), hrMn[0], int(hrMn[1]), > > 0,0,0,0) > > print tuple > > > eTime = mktime(tuple) > > print 'eTime', eTime > > Since jython works with Java, why not use Java's time/datetime > modules? Various links abound. Here are a few: > > http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/000552.htmlhttp://www.xmission.com/~goodhill/dates/deltaDates.htmlhttp://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t149657-find-difference-in-date... > > Maybe those will give you some hints. > > Mike
Excellent idea. Thanks Mike. jvh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list