[Sugar-devel] [PATCH v2 Browse] Remove temporary downloaded (cancelled) files SL #3973

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Works as pseudocode. But I took a quick look at the datetime docs and
> it is... horrible. We want to be doing math on the epoch (seconds
> since 1970).
>
> They refuse to document it properly, but the answer to the riddle is
>
>    datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%s.%f')

Actually, the answer is to avoid datetime. It's fine for high level
work; when you care about times defined as epoch values, you

 import time
 now = time.time()

so the code snippet should be (untested):

boot_time = int(boot_time) # discard the float part
now = int(time.time())
cutoff = now - 24 * 60 * 60
if uptime is not None:
      boot_time = now - uptime
      cutoff = max(cutoff, boot_time)


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