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authorVincent Driessen <vincent@3rdcloud.com>2012-02-03 19:14:44 +0100
committerVincent Driessen <vincent@3rdcloud.com>2012-02-03 19:19:14 +0100
commit2960eb87b59c93b830e2357ca282aecf4a45f6fe (patch)
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No need to explain all the details in the README.
It is enough (and way simpler) for users to only know the to_universal() call.
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@@ -39,12 +39,6 @@ from a user), convert it to universal time immediately:
>>> times.to_universal(local_time, 'Europe/Amsterdam')
datetime.datetime(2012, 2, 1, 10, 31, 45, 781262)
-You can approach the conversion from the other side, too, as `to_universal` is
-conveniently aliased to `from_local`:
-
- >>> times.from_local(local_time, 'Europe/Amsterdam')
- datetime.datetime(2012, 2, 1, 10, 31, 45, 781262)
-
The second argument can be a `pytz.timezone` instance, or a timezone string.
If the `local_time` variable already holds timezone info, you _must_ leave out
@@ -60,15 +54,12 @@ If you prefer working with UNIX (POSIX) timestamps, you can convert them to
safe datetime representations easily:
>>> import time, times
- >>> print times.from_unix(time.time())
- 2012-02-03 11:58:58.069461
>>> print times.to_universal(time.time())
2012-02-03 11:59:03.588419
Note that `to_universal` auto-detects that you give it a UNIX timestamp.
-To get the correct UTC-based UNIX timestamp representation of a universal
-datetime, use:
+To get the UNIX timestamp representation of a universal datetime, use:
>>> print times.to_unix(universal_time)