>>>>> "FLDJ" == Fred L Drake, Jr <fred@zope.com> writes: FLDJ> What you're looking for is the datetime.timedelta type, FLDJ> which can express "36 hours and 27 minutes", or "4 hours and FLDJ> 30 minutes". Beautiful! Can it express the most common time delta I run across in Mailman: 8 and a half quadrillion years and six femtoseconds? :) -Barry