On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:47 PM, J <dreadpiratej...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a better way to do this?
Yes:
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
> def SkewTime():
> '''
> Optional function. We can skew time by 1 hour if we'd like to see real sync
> changes being enforced
> '''
> TIME_SKEW=1
> logging.info('Time Skewing has been selected. Setting clock ahead 1 hour')
> # Let's get our current time
skewed = datetime.now() + timedelta(hours=TIME_SKEW)
> # Now create new time string in the form MMDDhhmmYYYY for the date program
date_time_str = skewed.strftime('%m%d%H%M%Y')
logging.debug('New date string is: %s' % date_time_str)
> logging.debug('Setting new system time/date')
status = SilentCall('/bin/date %s' % date_time_str)
> logging.info('Pre-sync time is: %s' % time.asctime())
>
> Anyway, what I'm wondering, is, while this works, is there a better
> way to do it than using part of the originally returned time_struct
> and injecting my own new hour argument (hr).
Use the datetime module roughly as shown. (Disclaimer: Code is untested).
Also, I'm not sure if your original code worked properly after 11PM;
my code definitely should.
> This just looks... well, big to me. I tried passing only the things I
> really needed to time.strftime(), but apparently, that requires the
> full 9-tuple from time_struct, not just individual parts of it.
Cheers,
Chris
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