[Spacewalk-list] timestamps and the spacecmd API

[Boyd, Robert]

Andy,

Have you looked at the datetime data objects ?   They allow for direct comparison and arithmetic operations.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/WorkingWithTime


http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html

Cheers,
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Andy Ingham
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 1:14 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] timestamps and the spacecmd API

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







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