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Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)

From Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)
Date 2014-03-26 19:25 -0400
Organization IISS Elusive Unicorn
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Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:58:27 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
following:

>One of my roles on this newsgroup is to periodically whine about 
>stupidities in the Python datetime module.  This is one of those times.
>
>I have some code which computes how long ago the sun set.  Being a nice 
>pythonista, I'm using a timedelta to represent this value.  It would be 
>difficult to imagine a less useful default way to print a timedelta:
>
>previous sunset: -1 day, 22:25:26.295993
>
>The idea of str() is that it's supposed to return a human-friendly 
>representation of a value.  Humans do not say things like, "The sun set 
>1 day ago plus 22 hours and 25 minutes".

	Makes sense to me -- the key being time DELTA... IE, a difference from
some (unspecified) instance in time...

	If you want an instance of time, you need to add some known instance
and the delta value.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-25 20:58 -0400
  Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-25 18:19 -0700
  Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-26 09:27 +0000
  Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-03-26 08:37 -0500
    Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-26 08:04 -0700
      Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-03-26 10:39 -0500
        Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-26 17:58 +0200
          Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-03-26 11:34 -0500
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-26 19:13 +0200
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-26 19:12 +0000
              Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-03-27 07:06 +1100
      Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-26 11:50 -0400
  Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2014-03-26 15:02 +0100
    Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-26 16:43 +0200
  Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-27 01:12 +1100
    Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-03-27 11:08 +1300
  Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-03-26 19:25 -0400
    Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-27 00:16 +0000
      Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-27 12:28 +1100
        Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-26 21:38 -0400
          Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-27 08:40 +0000
      Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-03-27 03:56 +0000
      Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2014-03-27 11:22 +0100
        Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-27 21:44 +1100
          Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2014-03-27 12:05 +0100
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-27 22:33 +1100
          Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2014-03-27 12:25 +0100
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-27 22:42 +1100
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-03-27 06:56 -0500
              Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-27 16:04 +0200
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-27 23:20 +1100
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-03-27 08:01 -0500
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-27 17:10 -0400
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-27 17:04 -0700
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-27 21:46 -0400
              Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-27 21:59 -0400
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-27 22:24 -0400
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-28 14:03 +1100
          Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-27 08:52 -0400
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2014-03-27 15:12 +0100
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-28 01:15 +1100
            Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-27 23:41 +0000
              Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-27 20:29 -0400
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-03-28 11:43 +1100
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-28 11:11 +0000
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-28 08:30 -0400
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-28 15:10 +0200
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-29 00:19 +1100
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-28 09:22 -0400
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-03-28 06:30 -0700
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-29 00:32 +1100
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-03-28 09:20 -0400
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-28 16:34 +0200
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-28 14:35 +0000
                Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-29 02:25 +1100
  Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant) Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-03-26 16:33 -0700

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