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Bilal Ali Akbar
Bilal Ali Akbar

Reputation: 1

How to extract second from date and time in python

By using:

import os,os.path,time,shutil,datetime

print time.ctime(os.path.getmtime("/home/sulata/Documents/source/"))

print time.ctime(os.path.getmtime("/home/sulata/Documents/destination/"))

I'm getting the outputs:

Mon Apr 2 15:56:00 2018

Mon Apr 2 15:56:03 2018

I want to get the time without seconds.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1709

Answers (5)

Julio CamPlaz
Julio CamPlaz

Reputation: 917

The general method is:

import time
time.strftime(format)

example:

>>>time.strftime("%H:%M:%S")
20:08:40

In your case:

>>> time.strftime("%H:%M")
13:41

>>>time.strftime("%a %b %d %H:%M %Y")
'Mon Apr 02 13:27 2018'

if you want to remove the Zero, you could do something like this...

>>> time.strftime("%a %b "+str(int(time.strftime("%d"))) +" %H:%M %Y")
'Mon Apr 2 13:33 2018'

Upvotes: 2

5parkp1ug
5parkp1ug

Reputation: 532

You can try this -

>>> import time, os
>>>
>>> x = time.gmtime(os.path.getmtime('/home/abhi/test.file'))
>>> 
>>> x
time.struct_time(tm_year=2018, tm_mon=4, tm_mday=2, tm_hour=11, tm_min=19, tm_sec=43, tm_wday=0, tm_yday=92, tm_isdst=0)
>>> x.tm_sec
43
>>> x.tm_hour
11
>>>

Upvotes: 0

Maurice Meyer
Maurice Meyer

Reputation: 18106

getmtime returns a timestamp, so you can format it using strftime to whatever format you need:

>>> import datetime as dt
>>> import os
>>> mTime = os.path.getmtime("/tmp/xauth-1000-_0")
>>> dt.datetime.fromtimestamp(mTime).strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
'2018-04-01 22:07'

Format identifiers can be found in the docs.

Upvotes: 0

Robo Mop
Robo Mop

Reputation: 3553

JulioCamPlaz has already provided a decent enough solution, but if you want to maintain the date format, you can use regex for this:

import re

x = time.ctime(os.path.getmtime("/home/sulata/Documents/source/"))
print(re.sub(r':\d{1,2}\s', ' ', x))

What this does is that it removes the final two digits (seconds) of the time which are followed by a space, and replaces it with a space.

Although this may be an over-complicated method, it is short, and gives you the exact same date format without the seconds, and without altering it in any way.

Upvotes: 0

Rakesh
Rakesh

Reputation: 82765

Use datetime to get the seconds.

Ex:

import os,os.path,time,shutil,datetime
print datetime.datetime.strptime(time.ctime(os.path.getmtime(r"/home/sulata/Documents/source/")), "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y").second

Upvotes: 0

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