timedelta.min

Overview:

Negative time quantity in the context of an event that is to be started could mean the remaining time for that event to start. For example, if a meeting starts by 3.00 PM, at 2.58 PM a time duration of -2 minutes denotes the meeting is starting in 2 minutes.
The attribute TimeDelta.min provides the biggest of such negative time quantity that can be represented using the TimeDelta class.

# Example Python program that prints
# the minimum time quantity that can be represented
# through the Python class datetime.timedelta

from datetime import timedelta

print(timedelta.min)
print(type(timedelta.min))

# Try creating a timedelta smaller than timedelta.min
print(timedelta(timedelta.min.days-1))

Most negative timedelta:

-999999999 days, 0:00:00

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/Valli/PythonProgs/td_ex1.py", line 12, in <module>

print(timedelta(timedelta.min.days-1))

OverflowError: days=-1000000000; must have magnitude <= 999999999