[mrz]

anybody knows if there is a dateadd command in python?

[Cactus]

dateadd?

what should that function/command do?

[mrz]

i mean getting a date with an offset. in sql you can use dateadd(hour,getdate(),-5) which would give you time now -5 hours. i'm looking for something similar.

[Cactus]

what i would use is time.localtime()

see http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/module-time.html for more info.

cheers
cacti

[madtw]

have a look at the datetime python module. in particular datetime.timedelta is useful for what you want to do. for example:

starttime = self.starttime - datetime.timedelta( hours=delta )

[mrz]

this is exactly what i was looking for.

thanks :thumbsup: