ISO with timezone

[nik]

On Jan 29, 10:56 am, nik <nikb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,
> that does help and now I have:
>
> >>> from datetime import datetime, tzinfo, timedelta
> >>> import time
> >>> class TZ(tzinfo):
>
> ...    def utcoffset(self,dt): return timedelta(seconds=time.timezone)
> ...>>> print datetime(2008,2,29,15,30,11,tzinfo=TZ()).isoformat()
>
> 2008-02-29T15:30:11+8:00
>
> But what I want to know now it how to get the actual time into the
> expression instead of typing the 2008,2,29,15....
> So something like: >>> print
> datetime(time.gmtime(),tzinfo=TZ()).isoformat(), but that doesn't
> work.
>
> I realize that I could do:
>
> >>> t = time.localtime()
> >>> print datetime(t[0],t[1],t[2],t[3],t[4],t[5],tzinfo=TZ()).isoformat()
>
> but I imagine there might be a cleaner way of doing this.
>
> Thanks,
> Nik
>
> On Jan 28, 9:10 pm, "Nicholas F. Fabry" <nick.fa... at coredump.us>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello, nik.
>
> > On Jan 28, 2008, at 21:03, nik wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > How does one express the time in ISO format with the timezone
> > > designator?
>
> > > what I want is YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD
>
> > >> From the documentation I see:
> > >>>> from datetime import tzinfo, timedelta, datetime
> > >>>> class TZ(tzinfo):
> > > ...     def utcoffset(self, dt): return timedelta(minutes=-399)
> > > ...
> > >>>> datetime(2002, 12, 25, tzinfo=TZ()).isoformat(' ')
> > > '2002-12-25 00:00:00-06:39'
>
> > > and I've also figured out:
> > >>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.time()).isoformat()[:-3]
> > > '2008-01-23T11:22:54.130'
>
> > > But can't figure out how to fit them together.
>
> > There is nothing there to 'fit together' - in the first example given,
> > the datetime object has no time component specified, so it fills in
> > default vaules of zero.  The following should make this clear:
>
> >  >>> your_time = datetime(2008, 2, 29, 15, 30, 11, tzinfo=TZ())
> >  >>> print your_time
> > 2008-02-29 15:30:11-05:00
> >  >>> print your_time.isoformat('T')
> > 2008-02-29T15:30:11-05:00
>
> > If you wish to append the NAME of the tzinfo object instead of its
> > offset, that requires a bit more playing around (along with a properly
> > defined tzinfo object - check out dateutil or pytz for a concrete
> > implementation of tzinfo subclasses (i.e. timezones)), but the
> > following would work:
>
> >  >>> print your_time.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S %Z')
> > 2008-02-29T15:30:11 EST
>
> > For details on how the .strftime method works, see Python Standard
> > Library, Section 14.2.
>
> > I hope this helps!
>
> > Nick Fabry
>
> > > Thank you,
> > > Nik
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