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Oct 25th, 2005
I want to creat file with each line having date + time + data so I can append more data as need be and know when it was added. What date+time function would be best?
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Oct 25th, 2005
I just was messing around with the time module tonight. are you asking for something simple like
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  1. >>> import time
  2. >>> time.ctime()
  3. 'Mon Oct 24 23:30:47 2005'
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That would do it - but maybe a little shorter is even better.
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how about this
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  1. import time
  2. # time.localtime() splits the time into elements of a tuple
  3. tuple_time = time.localtime()
  4. # don't europeans do day/month/year ?
  5. time_stamp = "%s:%s %s/%s/%s" %(tuple_time[3], tuple_time[4], tuple_time[2], tuple_time[1], tuple_time[0])
  6. print time_stamp

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I noticed a time like one minute after 12 looks like this
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  1. 0:1 25/10/2005

that could be fixed with a little more code
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this code fixes that issue
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  1. def time_stamp():  
  2.     import time
  3.     tuple_time = time.localtime()
  4.     hours = tuple_time[3]
  5.     if int(hours) in range(10):
  6.         hours = "0%s" %hours
  7.     minutes = tuple_time[4]
  8.     if int(minutes) in range(10):
  9.         minutes = "0%s" %minutes
  10.     day = tuple_time[2]
  11.     month = tuple_time[1]
  12.     year = tuple_time[0]
  13.     # don't europeans do day/month/year ?
  14.     time_ = "%s:%s %s/%s/%s" %(hours, minutes, day, month, year)
  15.     return time_
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Oct 26th, 2005
That looks good. Many countries in Europe have day/month/year format, but that doesn't make much sense for what I may want to do. I am thinking about a date and time stamp starting each data line where the line could be sorted. It could have to look something like year/month/day hour:minute:second to do this rightly.

The tuple_time almost has this sorting format.
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