Robert James Liguori <gliesia...@gmail.com> writes: (I've corrected the Subject field. The standard you're referring to is ISO 8601, I believe.)
> How do I add 18 seconds to this string in Python? > > 2000-01-01T16:36:25.000Z Two separate parts: * How do I get a timestamp object from a text representation in ISO 8601 format? * How do I add 18 seconds to a timestamp object? Parsing a text representation of a timestamp to get a timestamp object is done with ‘datetime.strptime’ from the Python standard library <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.strptime>:: >>> import datetime >>> foo_timestamp_text = "2000-01-01T16:36:25.000Z" >>> iso8601_format = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ" >>> foo_timestamp = datetime.datetime.strptime(foo_timestamp_text, iso8601_format) >>> foo_timestamp datetime.datetime(2000, 1, 1, 16, 36, 25) Arithmetic on timestamps is done using the ‘datetime.timedelta’ type <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#timedelta-objects>:: >>> increment = datetime.timedelta(seconds=18) >>> increment datetime.timedelta(0, 18) >>> foo_timestamp + increment datetime.datetime(2000, 1, 1, 16, 36, 43) -- \ “You don't change the world by placidly finding your bliss — | `\ you do it by focusing your discontent in productive ways.” | _o__) —Paul Z. Myers, 2011-08-31 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list