[Python-Dev] datetime module enhancements

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sat Mar 10 00:27:31 CET 2007


At 09:20 PM 3/9/2007 +0000, Jon Ribbens wrote:
>If you want the answer to be "the entire of that day" then you need
>to alter the datetime module so that, e.g. subtracting 2007-03-08
>from 2007-03-09 does not return "one day" as currently, but returns
>"zero days" instead (since of course there is no time between the end
>of one day and the start of the next day).

Unless you decide that subtraction is between days' ends.  Or days' 
beginnings.  Either suffices to produce a 1-day result in that case, and is 
still consistent with viewing days as slices of time.



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