Re: ISO with timezone

2008-01-28 Thread Nicholas F. Fabry
Hello, nik. On Jan 28, 2008, at 21:03, nik wrote: > Hi, > > How does one express the time in ISO format with the timezone > designator? > > what I want is -MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD > >> From the documentation I see: from datetime import tzinfo, timedelta, datetime class TZ(tzinfo): > ...

Re: ISO with timezone

2008-01-29 Thread Nicholas F. Fabry
tzinfo object attached), you can do it simply by feeding .now the tzinfo object you want attached, as below: >>> print datetime.now(TZ()).isoformat('T') 2008-01-29T23:43:16.809049-05:00 See PSL, Sect. 5.1.4 Dates and Times are a bit ugly in Python. Don't be discoura

Improving datetime

2008-03-19 Thread Nicholas F. Fabry
This is a query for information as to how to proceed. I am not a professional programmer, but I use Python a great deal to help me in my main job, which involves designing schedules for a global airline. As such, I use datetime (and dateutil) extensively, and after much use, I have come t

Re: Improving datetime

2008-03-19 Thread Nicholas F. Fabry
On Mar 19, 2008, at 16:30, Christian Heimes wrote: > Nicholas F. Fabry schrieb: >> This is a query for information as to how to proceed. I am not a >> professional programmer, but I use Python a great deal to help me >> in my main job, which involves designing s

Re: Improving datetime

2008-03-19 Thread Nicholas F. Fabry
On Mar 19, 2008, at 18:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:40:39 -0400, Nicholas F. Fabry wrote: To summarize my proposal VERY briefly: - Make aware datetime objects display in local time, but calculate/ compare in UTC. Your proposal is ambi

Re: Improving datetime

2008-03-21 Thread Nicholas F. Fabry
On Mar 21, 2008, at 13:36, Christian Heimes wrote: > Colin J. Williams schrieb: >> You might consider adding the Julian date >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_date). >> >> I had a crack at this a while ago but didn't seem to get quire the >> right >> result, using the ACM algorithm. I se