Python equivalent of settimeofday()?

[Peter Hansen]

"Narendra C. Tulpule" wrote:
> 
>   do you know how (or if) I can set time on a system using Python?
> i.e. is there an equivalent of the shell's 'date -s' or the system
> call settimeofday()?

Maybe some variation on this?

import os,time

def settimeofday(tt):
    ts = time.ctime(tt)
    os.system("/sbin/hwclock --set '--date=%s'"% ts)
    os.system("/sbin/hwclock --hctosys")


??  

Note the final line, which retrieves the time from the hardware so the
system clock is also updated.

-Peter