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Python date handling vs Ruby date handling
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Intro

Tweet by rwilcox: Ok, someday I'm going to write that Ruby vs Python date/time handling comparison blog article.. (probably not in the foreseeable, but still)

This markdown starts the outline for a blog article I'm going to write. If you have any suggestions, fork this gist and add them. (or add comments to this gist!)

  • Basic usage: setting date object to Jan 3, 1979
  • Basic usage: setting datetime object to Jan 3, 1979, 5:04am
  • measuring differences in time (intervals)
  • parsing
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