Standard class for time *period*?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 29Mar2023 08:17, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>I am glad to hear that I am not alone :-) However, my use-case is fairly
>trivial, indeed less complicated than yours.  So, in truth I don't
>really need a Period class.  I just thought it might be a sufficiently
>generic itch that someone else with a more complicated use-case could
>have already scratched.

Well, my attitude to time spans is to get the start and end (or start 
and length, but I prefer the former) as UNIX timestamps and work from 
that. I try to stay as far from datetimes as possible, because of their 
foibles (particularly timezones, but really the whole calendar 
decomposition etc) and use them only for presentation.

I do in fact have a `TimePartition` in my timeseries module; it 
presently doesn't do comparisons because I'm not comparing them - I'm 
just using them as slices into the timeseries data on the whole.

https://github.com/cameron-simpson/css/blob/0ade6d191833b87cab8826d7ecaee4d114992c45/lib/python/cs/timeseries.py#L2163

But it would be easy to give that class `__lt__` etc methods.

You're welcome to use it, or anything from the module (it's on PyPI).

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>