[Tutor] datetime: What happended yesterday? :-)

[doug shawhan]

Heh. Your example would look very, very nice in the timedelta (
http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-timedelta.html) section of the docs! :-)

It makes perfect sense, the authors probably thought it was too easy to need
an explaination ...

On 6/12/06, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
>
> doug shawhan wrote:
> > I've been looking at datetime and cannot figure out what was a very
> > simple operation with the time module.
> >
> > How does one add or subtract 24 (or any number) of hours from a given
> > date and time using the datetime module?
>
> Use a datetime.timedelta:
>
> In [1]: import datetime
>
> In [2]: now = datetime.datetime.now()
>
> In [3]: now
> Out[3]: datetime.datetime(2006, 6, 12, 16, 7, 47, 69000)
>
> In [4]: one_day = datetime.timedelta(hours=24)
>
> In [5]: now-one_day
> Out[5]: datetime.datetime(2006, 6, 11, 16, 7, 47, 69000)
>
> Kent
>
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