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Sane · Jan 26th, 2006, 6:36 PM

Wee. I decided to try it out myself.

time.gmtime() will convert the seconds since epoch to a date. So if we take the current seconds since epoch time.time() and offset it back a day, voila!

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import time

def time_zone( offset = 0 ): # DEFAULT = GMT
    new = time.gmtime( time.time() + offset*60*60 )
    return "Day: %s | Month: %s | Year: %s\n%s:%s:%s"%(new[2],new[1],new[0],new[3],new[4],new[5])

print time_zone( -5 )

I'm -5 from GMT, so if I then set it to -29, it gives me yesterday's date.

Hope this helps. =D

Jan 26th, 2006, 6:36 PM	#3
Sane Programming Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,827 Rep Power: 5	Wee. I decided to try it out myself. time.gmtime() will convert the seconds since epoch to a date. So if we take the current seconds since epoch time.time() and offset it back a day, voila! (Toggle Plain Text) import time def time_zone( offset = 0 ): # DEFAULT = GMT new = time.gmtime( time.time() + offset6060 ) return "Day: %s \| Month: %s \| Year: %s\n%s:%s:%s"%(new[2],new[1],new[0],new[3],new[4],new[5]) print time_zone( -5 ) import time def time_zone( offset = 0 ): # DEFAULT = GMT new = time.gmtime( time.time() + offset6060 ) return "Day: %s \| Month: %s \| Year: %s\n%s:%s:%s"%(new[2],new[1],new[0],new[3],new[4],new[5]) print time_zone( -5 ) I'm -5 from GMT, so if I then set it to -29, it gives me yesterday's date. Hope this helps. =D