Correcting for Drift between Two Dates

[Erik Max Francis]

W. eWatson wrote:

> drift = 4.23 # seconds per day
> 
> format = '%Y%m%d_%H%M%S'
> ts1 = "20080901_120000"   # base date-time
> ts2 = "20080904_180000"
> d1 = datetime(*(time.strptime(ts1, format)[0:6]))
> d2 = datetime(*(time.strptime(ts2, format)[0:6]))
> #d += timedelta(seconds=sec)
> delta = d2-d1
> # delta format is nnn[n] days, hh:mm:ss
> # delta is type 'datetime.timedelta'
> print delta
> # get back to ts2 as a check
> d3 = d1+d
> print d3

You're going to have to start with code that actually runs first. 
You've iterated on this so many times that it's not at all clear what it 
is you're trying to do and why it isn't doing what you think it should.

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