A question about time

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Thu Jun 9 17:13:51 EDT 2005


On 2005-06-09, Jan Danielsson <jan.danielsson at gmail.com> wrote:

> In C, I would do this:
>
> server.invalidUntil = time(NULL) + 5*60; // five minute delay

In Python, I would do this:

server.invalidUntil = time.time() + 5*60  # five minute delay

> ..and the check:
>
> if(time(NULL) > server.invalidUtil)
> {
>    // use server
> }

if time() > server.invalidUntil:
    # user server

> So the whole thing very simple...

Yup.

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