Indigo Domotics

Hi C4W.

Just thought I'd use this to convert a Unix timestamp to a visual date, purely for something I'm debugging in one of my own plugins - when I noticed that's not one of the options?

(Unless, there's a %code for the full timestamp but I can't find one?)

Peter

Well, the date format is Python but it's just reading a string, so as long as you specify the format, in Python notation, it should covert.

But that’s the problem, there is no date notation for time.time() that strftime() etc supports?

If I’d used time.strftime(%y %m %d, time.time()) when creating my plugin then I could use your plugin to convert %y %m %d to something else.

But I used time.time() in my plugin, purely for counting seconds elapsed, so I didn’t need to format it in the plugin when I stored it in a state.

Now I want to temporarily (without recoding states) see the h:m:s value of that timestamp?


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time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.localtime())

==> '2018-04-08 16:49:40'

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time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.gmtime(time.time()))

==> '2018-04-08 15:50:19'

I am in the UK.. delta of 1 hour is due to DST

Karl

I know how to do it in code, I just thought it would a) be in the DE plugin already and b) because it isn’t, be a useful suggestion.

Seems not.


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howartp wrote:

I know how to do it in code, I just thought it would a) be in the DE plugin already and b) because it isn’t, be a useful suggestion.

It is and I'll look to add that. DE is a mess on my end right now with so many changes so you won't see that change for a while, that's why I was trying to see if there was a way to do it with what DE already does.

I didn't understand that you were wanting to drop to a shell to do it, I thought it was in Unix format and sitting somewhere in Indigo already, then it's a matter of converting the format.

Colorado4Wheeler wrote:

howartp wrote:

I know how to do it in code, I just thought it would a) be in the DE plugin already and b) because it isn’t, be a useful suggestion.

It is and I'll look to add that. DE is a mess on my end right now with so many changes so you won't see that change for a while, that's why I was trying to see if there was a way to do it with what DE already does.

I didn't understand that you were wanting to drop to a shell to do it, I thought it was in Unix format and sitting somewhere in Indigo already, then it's a matter of converting the format.

Hehe, I don't want to drop to a shell, and it is in Unix format sitting in Indigo already...

Never mind, I've sorted my plugin issue anyway - it will be good to add to DE when you get to it but no urgency.