[PythonCE] Timestamp

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Wed Jul 19 01:18:31 CEST 2006


Alex Mandel wrote:
> So I was looking at an old post where someone used
> 
> Python 2.3.2 (#0, Dec 11 2003, 12:46:49) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Unknown)] on
> Pocket PC
>  >>> >>> import time
>  >>> >>> clock=time.clock()
>  >>> >>> local=time.localtime(clock)
>  >>> >>> local
> (2004, 2, 27, 10, 14, 41, 4, -1, -1)
> 
> When I tried to repeat that on my Dell Axim X5 and on the Desktop 
> Emulator I always get
> (1969,12,31,17...
> Any idea how to actually get the time.
> All I need is string that has mmddyy like 071806
> 
> I tried:
> import time
> from time import strftime
> strftime("%m%d%y",gmtime())
> and got and error
> NameError: name 'gmtime' is not defined
> if I throw in local from the above code it works except its not the 
> current time its the default microsoft time.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks -
> Alex
NVM - localtime() worked



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