[Tutor] Date and Time questions

[Paul De Luca]

>From the docs I managed to work out your problem. It was a bit
complicated, I just looked for the function that provided output, then
find out what data it needed, then looked for a function that provided
that etc. Running Linux and using the date command with its string
formatting options made this seem a bit familiar too.

[pd@localhost pd]$ python
Python 2.0 (#1, Apr 11 2001, 19:18:08) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Linux-Mandrake 8.0 2.96-0.48mdk)] on linux-i386
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import time
>>> epoch = time.time()
>>> localtime = time.localtime(epoch)
>>> timeString = time.strftime('%Y%m%d_%H:%M', localtime)
>>> print timeString
20010710_02:25
>>> 

Here I returned the string as year|month|day_HourIn24hrFormat|Minute|

If it looks a bit foreign read through the time module a few times, and
you should get it. Epoch - the time in seconds past a set date. On UNIX
machines this is Jan 1 1970 at 00:00

There is also a bit of info on the different ways time is measured at the
beginning of the module docs.  





On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Schmidt, Allen J. wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Allen
> 
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