Country specific date format

[Franz Steinhaeusler]

Hello,

with following function, i get a human readable date/time format.

mtime = time.strftime(self.timeformat ,time.localtime(st.st_mtime))

However is there a simple solution to get a country specific format:
for example
10/08/2004

and for German:
08.10.2004

I looked in locale class, but I didn't get more wise.

Thank you in advance,

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hello,

with following function, i get a human readable date/time format.

mtime = time.strftime(self.timeformat ,time.localtime(st.st_mtime))

However is there a simple solution to get a country specific format:
for example
10/08/2004

and for German:
08.10.2004

I looked in locale class, but I didn't get more wise.

You didn't look properly:
'%d.%m.%Y'

 

[Franz Steinhäusler]

You didn't look properly:

Hi Diez,

you are right

'%d.%m.%Y'

thanks for answering, I have windows XP,
and it seems, this method doesn't exist:

import locale
locale.nl_langinfo(locale.D_FMT)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'nl_langinfo'
WinXP, Python 2.3.3

from the doc:
nl_langinfo( option)

Return some locale-specific information as a string. This function is
not available on all systems, and the set of possible options might
also vary across platforms. The possible argument values are numbers,
for which symbolic constants are available in the locale module.

is there any possibility ( please WITHOUT the win32 extensions and
other extra package except for wxPython )
to discover the date/time country specific string?

regards

 

[Anna Martelli Ravenscroft]

Hi Diez,

you are right




thanks for answering, I have windows XP,
and it seems, this method doesn't exist:

import locale
locale.nl_langinfo(locale.D_FMT)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'nl_langinfo'
WinXP, Python 2.3.3

from the doc:
nl_langinfo( option)

Return some locale-specific information as a string. This function is
not available on all systems, and the set of possible options might
also vary across platforms. The possible argument values are numbers,
for which symbolic constants are available in the locale module.

is there any possibility ( please WITHOUT the win32 extensions and
other extra package except for wxPython )
to discover the date/time country specific string?

regards

I would look at dateutil. It has some pretty nifty stuff for handling
timezones and locale-specific date issues...

HTH
Anna

 

[Franz Steinhaeusler]

[...]

is there any possibility ( please WITHOUT the win32 extensions and
other extra package except for wxPython )
to discover the date/time country specific string?

regards

I would look at dateutil. It has some pretty nifty stuff for handling
timezones and locale-specific date issues...

HTH
Anna

Hello,

thanks,

did you mean "datetime" instead of "dateutil".
(I couldn't find a dateutil)

 

[Alex Martelli]

Hello,

thanks,

did you mean "datetime" instead of "dateutil".
(I couldn't find a dateutil)

(Hmmm, I'd better try to answer for her, she's flying USwards right now
and I'm not sure how good her newsgroup access will be for a while...!)

I think she really meant dateutil -- a wonderful 3rd party extension.
Google for it... it IS worth it (IMHO, and I believe in Anna's too.


Alex

 

[Franz Steinhaeusler]

(Hmmm, I'd better try to answer for her, she's flying USwards right now
and I'm not sure how good her newsgroup access will be for a while...!)

I think she really meant dateutil -- a wonderful 3rd party extension.
Google for it... it IS worth it (IMHO, and I believe in Anna's too.


Alex

thank you, I found it.

I will give it a try.