Fractional Hours from datetime?

Austyn austyn at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 23:23:19 EST 2010


Here's an improvement in case you want your code to work outside of
Arizona:

from time import time, timezone
h = ((time() - timezone) / 3600) % 24

On Jan 10, 9:04 pm, Austyn <aus... at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about:
>
> import time
> arizona_utc_offset = -7.00
> h = (time.time() / 3600 + arizona_utc_offset) % 24
>
> dt.timetuple()[6] is the day of the week; struct tm_time doesn't
> include a sub-second field.
>
> On Jan 10, 10:28 am, "W. eWatson" <wolftra... at invalid.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Maybe there's a more elegant way to do this. I want to express the
> > result of datetime.datetime.now() in fractional hours.
>
> > Here's one way.
>
> > dt=datetime.datetime.now()
> > xtup = dt.timetuple()
> > h = xtup[3]+xtup[4]/60.0+xtup[5]/3600.00+xtup[6]/10**6
> > #  now is in fractions of an hour




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