Indigo Variable with datetime

What is the correct way to store a datetime (or time) within and Indigo variable and reconstitute the variable value back to the original object?

Here's an example:

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import datetime as dt

# Put the time into a variable.
obj = indigo.server.getTime()
indigo.variable.updateValue('Foobar', str(obj))
   
# Get the time back out.
obj2 = indigo.variables['Foobar'].value
date_obj = dt.datetime.strptime(obj2, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f')

# Ways to output the date
indigo.server.log(str(date_obj))
indigo.server.log(str(dt.datetime.strftime(date_obj, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')))
indigo.server.log(str(dt.datetime.strftime(date_obj, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')))
indigo.server.log(str(dt.datetime.strftime(date_obj, '%m-%d-%Y %H:%M')))

Here's the output:

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   Script                          2016-10-01 14:31:52.479000
   Script                          2016-10-01 14:31:52
   Script                          2016-10-01 14:31
   Script                          10-01-2016 14:31


To see the other ways to work with the data, do a Google search on datetime attributes.

Many thanks Dave. I didn't expect an answer that fast.

My pleasure. Let us know if you have any questions.


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