[Tutor] Date and Time questions

[Rob Andrews]

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# Schmidt, Allen J.
# Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 9:23 AM
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# I have looked around for things that deal with Date and Time.
# All I want to do is be able to assign a date/time value to a
# variable. Like
# 20010709_18:05.
# Does not need to be a date object just a text string that I can
# use to drop
# into a database table or use in other ways.
#
# The date time stuff seems a bit overly complicated. Any tips or
# pointers to
# online resources I may have missed.
#

Here are a few things you can do with the time module:

# first import the time module

>>> import time

# the time module allows a few different ways to express time

>>> time.time()
994689648.35000002

>>> time.clock()
6.7047721215575185e-006

# assigning the value to a variable is pretty painless

>>> currenttime=time.time()
>>> currenttime
994689713.05999994

# Personally, I like to be able to make some sense of it when I look at it.

>>> time.ctime(currenttime)
'Mon Jul 09 09:41:53 2001'
>>> time.ctime(time.time())
'Mon Jul 09 09:45:23 2001'

Hope this helps,
Rob

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