[Tutor] Support for datetime module

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Sun Sep 7 13:04:07 CEST 2008


On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Johan Geldenhuys <johan at accesstel.com.au> wrote:
> Thanks Kent,
>
> Let me explain what I need it for.
>
> I have a systemUpTime is seconds that I got from a SNMP agent.
>
> I want to work out when the system uptime began and want to put that in ISO
> format time to the millisecond.
>
> So my idea is to take a timestamp in seconds when I get the systemUpTime. I
> subtract the uptime from my timestamp and then format that into ISO format.
> That should give me a fairly accurate UTC-like time of when the systemUpTime
> began.
> Here is an example: "2008-09-04 22:29:43.221 Z"

I think you can do all that with functions in the time module.

Kent


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