[Dev] blog post on why date math is *fun* (unless your a PHP coder)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Nov 3 10:39:31 PST 2005


At 01:27 AM 11/3/2005 -0500, Mike Taylor wrote:
>Just thought I would share the blog post with other devs - something to 
>always keep in the back of your brain when manipulating dates :)
>
>http://www.alexking.org/blog/2005/11/02/nasty-php-oddity/

FWIW, in Python you should use a timedelta(days=whatever) to move by 
days.  That's why timedelta keeps the days separate from the seconds and 
such.  (That is, because there are days that aren't 86400 seconds long.)



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