Time

[Jonas Galvez]

Thanks all.

> [Mike Fletcher]
> That format is the ISO standard date-time format.  The modern way
> to work with date-times in Python is to use the datetime module,
> so:
>
>  >>> import datetime
>  >>> d = datetime.datetime( 2004, 4, 21, 15, 05)
>  >>> d.isoformat()
> '2004-04-21T15:05:00'
>
> You can use datetime.datetime( * mytuple ) to auto-unpack your
> tuple, btw.

Cool, that's what I was looking for.

> [Peter Hansen]
> You want to read about the "time" module:
>
>  >>> t = (2004, 4, 21, 15, 33)
>  >>> import time
>  >>> time.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:00', t+(0,0,0,0))
> '2004-04-21T15:33:00'
>
> I left the "T" in there as a literal because I don't know what you
> meant it to be and there's no obvious single-character
> substitution.

The "T" is from the W3C format:
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

I need it to generate valid RSS/ATOM feeds.



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