Changed days to hours. Updated the readme. Added some helpful comments to the config file.

README.rst

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Uses the reddit_api over at https://github.com/mellort/reddit_api to do all the
 Usage
 -----------
 - Just run `./schreddit`
+- You may want to check out the reddit_api, build it using `python setup.py build` and then copy the /reddit directory to this directory. The reason I don't provide it is that the reddit_api changes frequently and I don't want to include a static old version here. I also don't want to have a git repo in a git repo.
 
 Caveats
 -----------

shreddit

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
 config.read('shreddit.cfg')
 
-days = config.getint('main', 'days')
+hours = config.getint('main', 'hours')
 whitelist = config.get('main', 'whitelist')
 whitelist_ids = config.get('main', 'whitelist_ids')
 sort = config.get('main', 'sort')
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ r.login()
 if verbose:
 	print "Logged in as %s" % r.user
 
-before_time = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=days)
+before_time = datetime.now() - timedelta(hours=hours)
 
 if verbose:
 	print "Deleting messages before %s" % before_time

shreddit.cfg

@@ -2,8 +2,13 @@
 # or can be edited in the reddit_api [reddit] section
 [main]
 
-# How many days of comments you want to keep
+# How many hours of comments you want to keep
-days = 2
+# 24 hours in a day,
+# 168 hours in a week,
+# 672 hours in two fortnights,
+# 720 hours in a month (30 days),
+# 8766 hours in a year (365.25 days)
+hours = 24
 
 # Options: new, top, controversial, more?
 sort = new
@@ -25,4 +30,4 @@ item = overview
 whitelist = AskScience, TheCulture, redditdev, programming, charity
 
 # If you want any specific posts to be whitelisted stick 'em in here
-whitelist_ids = abcdef
+whitelist_ids = abcdef