Python ADO Date Time database fields

[John Machin]

On Jan 25, 10:55 am, goldtech <goldt... at worldpost.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given an MS-Access table with a date type field with a value of:
> 12:00:00 AM - just"12:00:00 AM", there's nothing else in the field.
>
> I want to print exactly what's in the field, ie. "12:00:00 AM". What I
> get printed is:   12/30/0/ 00:00:00
>
> I try:
[snip]
>         print oRS.Fields(dt).Value  # print here

try this:

val = oRS.Fields(dt).Value
print type(val)
print float(val)

If the last one gives you 0.0, then you have got exactly what's in the
database -- stored as a fraction of a day. Six AM would give you 0.25.

Converting that to 24 hour clock is easy:
>>> val = 0.12345
>>> seconds = int(round(val * 60 * 60 * 24))
>>> minutes, second = divmod(seconds, 60)
>>> hour, minute = divmod(minutes, 60)
>>> '%02d:%02d:%02d' % (hour, minute, second)
'02:57:46'
>>> ((((46/60.)+57)/60.)+2)/24. # checking
0.12344907407407407

If you don't get 0.0, let us know what you did get.

HTH,
John