parsing a date string

[MikeyG]

Hi,

I have a date string in the ctime() format ('Sat Mar 5 10:38:07 2005')
and I want to know how long ago that was in whole days.

So far I have:

import time
import datetime
age =
(datetime.date.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.strptime(date.strip()))) -
datetime.date.today()).days

Which is an absurd number of function calls and is possibly not even
correct (something in the docs about mktime() taking localtime whereas
my string is in UTC)

Any suggestions?

Thanks
MikeG

 

[Thomas Guettler]

Am Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:35:23 +0000 schrieb MikeyG:

Hi,

I have a date string in the ctime() format ('Sat Mar 5 10:38:07 2005')
and I want to know how long ago that was in whole days.

So far I have:

import time
import datetime
age =
(datetime.date.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.strptime(date.strip()))) -
datetime.date.today()).days

Which is an absurd number of function calls and is possibly not even
correct (something in the docs about mktime() taking localtime whereas
my string is in UTC)

Try %Z:

time.mktime(time.strptime("Sat Mar 5 10:38:07 2005 UTC",
"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z"))
--> 1110015487.0

time.mktime(time.strptime("Sat Mar 5 10:38:07 2005 CEST",
"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z"))
--> 1110011887.0

HTH,
Thomas