switched to Decimal based time. Much cleaner. Stacky Watch command working

stacktach/datetime_to_decimal.py

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+import calendar
+import datetime
+import decimal
+import time
+
+
+def dt_to_decimal(utc):
+    decimal.getcontext().prec = 6
+    return decimal.Decimal(calendar.timegm(utc.utctimetuple()) +
+                           utc.microsecond/float(1e6))
+
+
+def dt_from_decimal(dec):
+    integer = int(dec)
+    micro = (dec - decimal.Decimal(integer)) * decimal.Decimal(1000000)
+
+    daittyme = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(integer)
+    return daittyme.replace(microsecond=micro)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+    d = dt_to_decimal(now)
+    daittyme = dt_from_decimal(d)
+    print repr(now)
+    print repr(d)
+    print repr(daittyme)
+    assert(now == daittyme)