Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.049 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.90; '*S*': 0.00; 'python,': 0.02; 'rest,': 0.07; 'dst': 0.09; 'hour.': 0.09; 'subject:question': 0.10; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'assume': 0.14; 'bit...': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'rent': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'wed,': 0.18; 'year,': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'connects': 0.19; 'figures': 0.19; '(in': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; "haven't": 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'script': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'on,': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'primarily': 0.30; 'returned': 0.30; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'code': 0.31; "company's": 0.31; 'allows': 0.31; 'weeks': 0.32; 'another': 0.32; 'subject:time': 0.33; 'common': 0.35; 'except': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'done': 0.36; "i'll": 0.36; 'basis.': 0.38; 'depends': 0.38; 'bill': 0.39; 'sure': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'how': 0.40; 'days': 0.60; 'tell': 0.60; "you're": 0.61; 'companies': 0.62; 'costs': 0.63; 'more': 0.64; 'side': 0.67; 'lose': 0.68; 'car': 0.72; 'drug': 0.74; 'day': 0.76; 'cable': 0.84; 'hour,': 0.84; 'presumably': 0.84; 'rentals': 0.84; 'charges,': 0.91; 'recurring': 0.91; 'to:none': 0.92 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; bh=jZPXUCidXZrNuWzH86FCcq28jczG2rbk0vRKTQHQOFA=; b=hjdQl65b7jMSu0hea/zjGXCfGbxH3LulB+CQBl0MKT6uQGWks69DHvrrtw7HlTNqdV VicncRp7fJlQvrnUE6Gx1fZn3ryZxgRM93kfUM3vFXS+Ptw2RFzjPWfDEFQYOYxsDwGu f+UXBXlFKho5ZHBNT0Q79KX8hAMCEnqjOmXKJTiDLj++SX7ZgISWinXBt6DetiyiLcMB 8XxtueGWX6jpnl0myoiSoZsyPtOekdzes5oy+wBZPvEZvbRHE3wMqIRK9zXNj09Egi4y wgy2hZ+a8zMIOdeTwowzoY+XvAr0pCXKQm8UER2LdJBn5ZgsR3mnn22B89GTBaSQkGgh MnJA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.20.169 with SMTP id o9mr36685207ige.14.1412724070567; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:21:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 10:21:10 +1100 Subject: Re: Another time question From: Chris Angelico Cc: "python-list@python.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1412724073 news.xs4all.nl 2852 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:49900 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:78815 On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Seymore4Head wrote: > I never really cared enough to ask anyone, but something like my cable > bill is 98$ a month. Do companies (in general) consider a month every > 30 days or every time the 14th comes around? > > I did rent a car once during a time change and I only got to keep the > car 23 hours. > > As another side note I have had drug prescripts that were 28 days was > considered a month supply. The would be 4 weeks instead of one month. I'm not sure how this connects to Python, but I'll assume for now you're trying to do something up as a script and just haven't told us that bit... With periodic recurring charges, it's common for "month" to mean "calendar month", resetting every Nth of the month (often 1st, but any day works). If your mobile data plan costs $35/month and allows you 7GB/month throughput, both those figures will be per calendar month. For the rest, it depends on what the company's doing. Presumably drug prescriptions are primarily done on a weekly basis; car rentals will be on a daily basis. They're not going to say "cars have to be returned by 8AM, except during DST when they must be returned by 9AM", because that's just messy; so one day a year, you get an extra hour, and one day a year, you lose an hour. If you tell us what the code is you're trying to work on, we might be able to advise more usefully. ChrisA