time.strftime('%m-%d-%Y %H:%m:%S') to log is out of order

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Tue Jul 21 17:38:43 EDT 2009


>>>>> davidj411 <davidj411 at gmail.com> (d) wrote:

>d> I am using a recursive function to print the time and a few other
>d> things on each pass. ( the function calculates size of file that is
>d> being transferred and if not 100 % copied, it waits 20 secs and checks
>d> again).

>d> i would expect the time to be correct anytime it is used:

>d> <--code below -->>
>d> print time.strftime('%m-%d-%Y %H:%m:%S')
>d> <--code above -->>

>d> here is an example of what i am seeing:

>d> 16:07:16
>d> 16:07:36
>d> 16:07:56
>d> 16:07:16
>d> 16:07:36
>d> 16:07:56
>d> 16:07:16
>d> 16:07:36
>d> 16:07:56

You probably meant: print time.strftime('%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S')
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