venture of iit bombay vjti alumni print "number of ticks since : amjanuary :"ticks this would produce result something as follows number of ticks since : amjanuary date arithmetic is easy to do with ticks howeverdates before the epoch cannot be represented in this form dates in the far future also cannot be represented this way the cutoff point is sometime in for unix and windows what is timetuplemany of python' time functions handle time as tuple of numbersas shown below index field values -digit year month to day to