A problem with Time

[special_dragonfly]

Hello,

I need to return the date yesterday in the form DDMMYYYY. I looked through
the modules: time, datetime and calendar but can't find anything that leaps
out at me.

The problem I'm having is that although I can use time.localtime and get a
tuple of the year, month, day and so forth, I don't believe I can just minus
1 from the day, because I don't think it's cyclic, also, I can't see the
date being linked in with the month.

So is there any way of getting yesterdays date?

Thank You

Dominic

[Shawn Milochik]

import time
oneDay = 60 * 60 * 24 #seconds in one day

date = time.time()

yesterday = date - oneDay

[Diez B. Roggisch]

special_dragonfly schrieb:

Hello,

I need to return the date yesterday in the form DDMMYYYY. I looked through
the modules: time, datetime and calendar but can't find anything that leaps
out at me.

The problem I'm having is that although I can use time.localtime and get a
tuple of the year, month, day and so forth, I don't believe I can just minus
1 from the day, because I don't think it's cyclic, also, I can't see the
date being linked in with the month.

So is there any way of getting yesterdays date?

RTFM is the answer...

import datetime
today = datetime.date.today()
yesterday = today - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
print yesterday
Diez

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-08-16, Shawn Milochik <Sh***@Milochik.comwrote:

import time
oneDay = 60 * 60 * 24 #seconds in one day

date = time.time()

yesterday = date - oneDay

Or use a timedelta.

>>import datetime
yesterday = datetime.datetime.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
yesterday.strftime('%m%d%Y')

'08152007'

--
Neil Cerutti
It might take a season, it might take half a season, it might take a year.
--Elgin Baylor

[Gary Herron]

special_dragonfly wrote:

Hello,

I need to return the date yesterday in the form DDMMYYYY. I looked through
the modules: time, datetime and calendar but can't find anything that leaps
out at me.

The problem I'm having is that although I can use time.localtime and get a
tuple of the year, month, day and so forth, I don't believe I can just minus
1 from the day, because I don't think it's cyclic, also, I can't see the
date being linked in with the month.

So is there any way of getting yesterdays date?

Thank You

Dominic

Here's how I'd do it:

>>import time
secondsPerDay = 24*60*60
today = time.time()
yesterday = today - secondsPerDay
print time.strftime("%d%m%Y",time.localtime(today))

16082007

>>print time.strftime("%d%m%Y",time.localtime(yesterday))

15082007

Gary Herron

[BartlebyScrivener]

On Aug 16, 10:54 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[e-mail]:

RTFM is the answer...

I don't know. I remember scratching my head for a day or two over the
module explanations and instructions until I found a little howto with
a lot of explicite examples.

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_p...sandtimes.html

rd

[MRAB]

On Aug 16, 4:30 pm, "special_dragonfly" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Hello,

I need to return the date yesterday in the form DDMMYYYY. I looked through
the modules: time, datetime and calendar but can't find anything that leaps
out at me.

The problem I'm having is that although I can use time.localtime and get a
tuple of the year, month, day and so forth, I don't believe I can just minus
1 from the day, because I don't think it's cyclic, also, I can't see the
date being linked in with the month.

So is there any way of getting yesterdays date?

As well as the other replies, this also works (as far as I can tell!):

import time
today = time.localtime()
yesterday = today[ : 2] + (today[2] - 1, ) + today[3 : ]
yesterday = time.localtime(time.mktime(yesterday))

[Dick Moores]

At 08:30 AM 8/16/2007, special_dragonfly wrote:

>Hello,

I need to return the date yesterday in the form DDMMYYYY. I looked through
the modules: time, datetime and calendar but can't find anything that leaps
out at me.

The problem I'm having is that although I can use time.localtime and get a
tuple of the year, month, day and so forth, I don't believe I can just minus
1 from the day, because I don't think it's cyclic, also, I can't see the
date being linked in with the month.

So is there any way of getting yesterdays date?

The question has already been well-answered, but since I've found
using the datetime module to be tough going, I was wondering if
either of these would be easier to understand and use:
1. <http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxDateTime/>
I see that mxDateTime comes with a 55-page manual as a PDF.

2. <http://labix.org/python-dateutil>

Dick Moores