How to calculate date differences

[t-kev]

Hi there! Does anyone know how to calculate the difference between two dates? Say for example to get the number of days between today and a future calendar event that i've set or the number of weeks to go.

[dakin80]

Here's one possibility. Should cope with leap years and is limited to dates in range accepted by mktime which should cover 1970 to 2038 at least.

>>> d1=(2009,1,1,0,0,0,-1,-1,-1)
>>> d2=(2010,1,1,0,0,0,-1,-1,-1)
>>> t1=time.mktime(d1)
>>> t2=time.mktime(d2)
>>> days=(t2-t1)/(60*60*24)
>>> days
365.0

It's a shame that datetime objects aren't implemented which would make the task easier.

[mahesh.sayibabu]

Hi there! Does anyone know how to calculate the difference between two dates? Say for example to get the number of days between today and a future calendar event that i've set or the number of weeks to go.

This is a good start http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_p...sandtimes.html

[dakin80]

This is a good start http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_p...sandtimes.html

It's useless in this context. The date manipulation examples use the datetime object which isn't implemented in Python for the S60.

[bogdan.galiceanu]

It's useless in this context. The date manipulation examples use the datetime object which isn't implemented in Python for the S60.

Note that it is implemented in PyS60 1.9.0 and newer (works fine on 1.9.4 at least).

[mahesh.sayibabu]

It's useless in this context. The date manipulation examples use the datetime object which isn't implemented in Python for the S60.

As noted by bogdan.galiceanu, datetime is available from PyS60 1.9.0 onwards.

[t-kev]

Sorry for being off the radar. Im using PyS60 1.4.5 and as far as I know it doesn't support the datetime object. Is there another way out of this?

[ashwinurao]

Sorry for being off the radar. Im using PyS60 1.4.5 and as far as I know it doesn't support the datetime object. Is there another way out of this?

There is a new version of PyS60 available based on Python 2.5.4 which supports datetime module. Although this is a developer release, you can try it out -> https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_...elease_id=2673