Get System Date?

[Dustan]

Is it possible to get the system date on a Windows XP machine? Most
Convenient would to retrieve YYYY, MM, and DD as seperate variables.

When I say system date, I'm thinking of the small clock in the
lower-right hand corner, which has date as well as time, but if there's
another clock that Python supports, it works for me as long as it's
somewhat accurate.

[Rene Pijlman]

Re: Get System Date?

Dustan:[color=blue]
>Is it possible to get the system date on a Windows XP machine?[/color]

Most certainly:

http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-time.html

--
René Pijlman

[Dave]

Re: Get System Date?

Dustan,

Python has a module called, appropriately, "time". Like most things in
Python, it's fairly simple and straightforward to use.

The module is documented here:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html

Breifly, though, the format you want is built right into time:
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>>> import time
>>> now = time.localtime( )
>>> print now[/color][/color][/color]
(2006, 2, 5, 13, 21, 15, 6, 36, 0)

So to get the year, month, and day you would just have to manipulate
the values returned by time.gmtime().

- Dave

[Dustan]

Re: Get System Date?

Thanks

[Alex Martelli]

Re: Get System Date?

Dustan <DustanGroups@g mail.com> wrote:
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> Is it possible to get the system date on a Windows XP machine? Most
> Convenient would to retrieve YYYY, MM, and DD as seperate variables.
>
> When I say system date, I'm thinking of the small clock in the
> lower-right hand corner, which has date as well as time, but if there's
> another clock that Python supports, it works for me as long as it's
> somewhat accurate.[/color]
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>>> import datetime
>>> x=datetime.date .today()
>>> yyyy, mm, dd = x.year, x.month, x.day
>>> print yyyy[/color][/color][/color]
2006[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> print mm[/color][/color][/color]
2[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> print dd[/color][/color][/color]
5[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]

As you see, these are integers (so, for example, mm is not '02' but just
2). Pretty easy to make them into strings, of course, if you want.


Alex

[Magnus Lycka]

Re: Get System Date?

Dave wrote:[color=blue]
> Dustan,
>
> Python has a module called, appropriately, "time".[/color]

This is basically a wrapper around the standard C time
library. Python has a more modern and spiffy datetime
module which isn't restrained to 1970-2038, and just
handles spiffy date and datetime objects instead of
making you deal with awkward conversions between strange
numbers and obscure tuples. The old time module does work,
but due to e.g. strange assymetries in the module, you
have to deal with strange quirks to convert UTC times
right...
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>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.dateti me.now()[/color][/color][/color]
datetime.dateti me(2006, 2, 5, 23, 1, 45, 569833)