Standard way to express a date in a real number?

[Peter Hansen]

sdhyok wrote:
> 
> Tyler Eaves <tyler at cg1.org> wrote in message news:<bEGma.462$8c4.82 at tornadotest1.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> > Nicola Mingotti wrote:
> >
> > > import time
> > > t = time.time()
> > > # t is the number you asked for
> > >
> > > If you want to know more about this look at
> > > the "time" module .
> > >
> > >
> > > bye.
> >
> > The problem is that you can only represent dates from 1970 - 2030-someting
> > that way.
> 
> So, this is not the solution I am seeking.
> Better module to handle wider range of time?

How wide a range?  It is much easier to answer *specific*
questions, than very broad ones as you are asking... narrow
the scope a little and help us out.

-Peter