[AstroPy] Time custom formats

[Varun Bhalerao]

An alternate way to do this:

import astropy.time
import astropy.units as u
t = astropy.time.Time.now()
tnew = t - 1*u.d
print tnew.isot

Not a full solution, but does what you need.

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> Hi,
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> I've been trying to figure out how to print an astropy.Time with a custom string format and have not been able to.
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> In [2]: t = astropy.time.Time.now()
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> In [3]: t.yday
> Out[3]: '2016:050:13:45:21.260'
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> Now, what if I want the string '2016-050T13:45:21' instead?
> What I'd like is basically the astropy equivalent of the C library strftime().
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> I see there is a way to make a new subclass of TimeFormat, but I don't really want a whole new format, just a way to customize the string representation (possibly for input as well as output).  Maybe all I need is an example of how to subclass TimeFormat to accomplish that. I had some trouble getting it to work in the little experimenting I did.
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> Thanks for any tips,
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> -- Paul
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