[Spacewalk-list] timestamps and the spacecmd API

[Andy Ingham]

Hello all!

I need to compare the "completed_date" from the listSystemEvents method
(published at 
http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/1.9/handlers/SystemHandle
r.html#listSystems ) to the current time (when my python script runs).

The 'completed_date' is returned from the API in ISO8601 format, e.g.:
20131230T23:00:24

I'm grabbing the current timestamp via datetime.datetime.now(), which
returns a format like: 2014-02-06 13:05:47.583122



Has anyone got python code that compares two timestamps for use with the
spacewalk API?  (Ultimately, I want to create a conditional that says, "if
the event completed less than X hours ago, do Y")

TIA!


Andy

Andy Ingham
IT Infrastructure
Fuqua School of Business
Duke University