Some notes on python and its datetime routines.

Links

Here are some links

Examples

An example of using datetime is

import time
import datetime
now=datetime.datetime.now() 

#now.tzinfo = 'GMT'; # fails, now.tzinfo is immutable

print now.ctime() print now.isoformat() print now.tzinfo

but otherwise produces the following output

Fri Jan  2 15:15:07 2009
2009-01-02T15:15:07.896000
None

I performed these tests on a windows XP box. tzinfo is empty is this a windows/configuration thing? I can test this with UNIX. I tried setting the TZ variable before running the program and it makes no difference. I found one reference that says Python datetime doesn’t do TimeZones.

Obviously, using the from statement would change the call syntax

from datetime import datetime
now=datetime.now()

should work

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