Question about strftime

[silverburgh.meryl]

Hi,

I have question about strftime. I am trying to print the current time
in this format:

date = strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S", gmtime())
print date

I run the script at 2:18 pm, but I get this: 20070210_201837

Can you please tell me why I get '20'? instead of '14' (which is 2:00
pm)?

Thank you.

 

[Paul Rubin]

date = strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S", gmtime())
print date

I run the script at 2:18 pm, but I get this: 20070210_201837
Can you please tell me why I get '20'? instead of '14' (which is 2:00
pm)?

Wrong time zone? Maybe you want localtime() instead of gmtime().

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Can you please tell me why I get '20'? instead of '14' (which is 2:00
pm)?

Because you are using GREENWICH MEAN TIME as the input and are
located somewhere in US CST zone...

20070210_125307

I'm in PST zone
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[Gabriel Genellina]

I have question about strftime. I am trying to print the current time
in this format:

date = strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S", gmtime())
print date

I run the script at 2:18 pm, but I get this: 20070210_201837

Can you please tell me why I get '20'? instead of '14' (which is 2:00
pm)?

gmtime() returns the time in UTC, not local time, and your computer thinks
you're in Mexico, central USA or Canada.