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Kurt
Kurt

Reputation: 316

Python 3: maketime()

Rookie question:

the following works:

import time
# create time 
dztupel = 1971, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 
print(time.strftime("%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S", dztupel)) 
damals = time.mktime(dztupel)
# output 
lt = time.localtime(damals)
wtage = ["Montag", "Dienstag", "Mittwoch","Donnerstag","Freitag","Samstag", "Sonntag"]
wtagnr = lt[6]
print("Das ist ein", wtage[wtagnr])

tag_des_jahres = lt[7]
print("Der {0:d}. Tag des Jahres".format(tag_des_jahres))

but:

dztupel = 1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0

does not work,at least not at windows 10. edit: I get out of range error. But time should start at January 1st 1970 at 0 hour 0 min and 0 seconds. shouldn't it ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 92

Answers (1)

Nick Bull
Nick Bull

Reputation: 9846

In your second snippet, check out what the time.mktime() function returns, given that dztupel represents a datetime of 11:01am UTC on 1/1/1969 (shows as one hour ahead because of BST (i.e., UTC+0100) locally on my system):

>>> import time
>>> dztupel = 1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0  # In BST locally for me, remember, so one hour less seconds than printed EPOCH seconds
>>> time.mktime(dztupel) # This command
-3599.0  # seconds after (i.e., before as is negative) 1/1/1970 UTC0000

It's negative because EPOCH time (which time.mktike is printing, in seconds) starts at UTC midnight on 1/1/1970:

>>> dztupel = 1970, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0  # 1/1/1970 BST0100 == 1/1/1970 UTC0000
>>> time.mktime(dztupel)
0.0  # seconds after 1/1/1970 UTC0000

Hence 0.0, as it's 0 seconds since dztupel = 1970, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 since BST 0100 on 1/1/1970, or since UTC midnight on 1/1/1970.

Really, we want to print as UTC, so instead of time.localtime(), use time.gmtime():

>>> dztupel = 1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 
>>> time.gmtime(time.mktime(dztupel))
time.struct_time(tm_year=1969, tm_mon=12, tm_mday=31, tm_hour=23, tm_min=0, tm_sec=1, tm_wday=2, tm_yday=365, tm_isdst=0)

Then use strftime() to format it:

>>> gmt = time.gmtime(time.mktime(dztupel))
>>> time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', gmt)
'1969-12-31 23:00:01'

Upvotes: 1

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