PYTHON PROGRAMMING (2010)

Python Date and Time

There are various methods for handling date and time in python. Therefore has various calendar modules by which the actual time and date are tracked.

Tick

The interval of time in python is in the time instance of seconds. These seconds are in floating point format.

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

import time; # This is required to include time module.

ticks = time. time ()

print "Number of ticks since 12:00am, January 1, 1970:", ticks

Output

Number of ticks since 12:00am, January 1, 1970: 7186862.73399.

Python handles time with Tuple of 9 numbers.

Table

The above tuple are considered equal to the STRUC_TIME structure. Therefore these also contain some attributes which are as follows.

Table

Getting current time

This passes the particular required floating point to the function. It returns all the valid nine element to the time Tuple.

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

import time;

localtime = time.localtime(time.time())

print "Local current time :", localtime

Output

Local current time : time.struct_time(tm_year=2008, tm_mon=5, tm_mday=15,

tm_hour=12, tm_min=55, tm_sec=32, tm_wday=0, tm_yday=136, tm_isdst=1.

Getting formatted time

When particular output we have is lagging or is wrong. Therefore there is a need of formatting the time that we have.

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

import time;

localtime = time.asctime( time.localtime(time.time()) )

print "Local current time :", localtime.

Output

Local current time : Tue Jan 13 10:17:09 2009.

Getting calendar for a month

It helps us to perform functionality with already existing yearly as well as monthly calendar.

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

import calendar

cal = calendar.month(2008, 1)

print "Here is the calendar:"

print cal;

Output

Here is the calendar-

January 2008

Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31