I have been really scratching my head over this, it seems like there
*should* be a nice easy way to do what I want but I can't find it for
the life of me.
What I would like to do would be something like this:
>>> datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()
'2010-02-17T12:13:17.913260-06:00'
But what actually happens is this:
'2010-02-17T12:13:17.913260'
I need to keep track of the time zone because I'm working with Google
Calendar's query APIs, and it interprets all times as GMT unless you
specify the time zone, which means my search results are wrong.
Anyway, I was thinking I could get around it with something like:
now=datetime.datetime.now()
offset=datetime.datetime.utcoffset()
[somehow add the offset info into the "now" datetime object]
now.isoformat()
But a) I don't know how to stick the offset info into a datetime
object, and the documentation doesn't seem to say anything about this;
and b) the offset line doesn't work anyway:
>>> datetime.datetime.utcoffset()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: descriptor 'utcoffset' of 'datetime.datetime' object needs
an argument
I think there's a combination of problems here, involving me not
understanding something fundamental about datetime objects, and also
involving problems with the documentation (there are a whole lot of
places where the optional arguments to the methods are left off of the
syntax, for example.)
Can anyone help sort me out here? In particular, is there a really
straightforward way to do what I'm looking for?
One more general kind of confusion that this has raised for me is that
it seems that in the datetime documentation (and possibly other places
as well) there is an unexplained distinction between methods which can
be used to give you new information, and methods which only can tell
you something about the instance they are invoked on. For example,
this works the way I feel like it ought to:
>>> datetime.datetime.now()
datetime.datetime(2010, 2, 17, 12, 42, 30, 520792)
But this doesn't work at all:
>>> datetime.datetime.utcoffset()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: descriptor 'utcoffset' of 'datetime.datetime' object needs
an argument
And I haven't been able to find another method instead of utcoffset()
that will give me what I want.
Thanks very much to anyone who can illuminate my darkness on this
matter. :)
--
-dave----------------------------------------------------------------
"Pseudo-colored pictures of a person's brain lighting up are
undoubtedly more persuasive than a pattern of squiggles produced by a
polygraph. That could be a big problem if the goal is to get to the
truth." -Dr. Steven Hyman, Harvard
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