tomorrow in yyyymmdd format

[Gerhard Häring]

* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry at attbi.com> [2002-06-18 18:38 -0700]:
> >> 
> >> Sure there is :-) time.mktime() can take a "malformed" time tuple and
> >> do something sensible with it. You can therefore get a time tuple from
> >> gmtime, add one to the day position and call time.mktime() on the
> >> result:
> >> 
> >> >>> x = (2002, 2, 29, 0, 31, 42, 2, 170, 0)
> >> >>> time.gmtime(time.mktime(x))
> >> (2002, 3, 1, 7, 31, 42, 4, 60, 0)
> >> >>>
> > 
> > Pure luck that this works. Don't complain if it stops workin in Python
> > 2.7 and your code breaks ;-)
> > 
> 
> actually that is a function of the mktime() function in the C library which the
> python module wraps.  Based on my reading of a man page or two this behaviour
> seems guaranteed by POSIX.  Now, the assumption made is the mktime() function
> on YOUR system follows POSIX.

Fine. I've just read the Python documentation which doesn't make this
guarantee. I'll leave it to others to check if this works on win32,
MacOS, as I'm using mxDateTime for this kind of tasks, anyway.

Gerhard
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