initial draft of base materials and examples

Author: iansedano

python-get-current-time/unix_time.py

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+import datetime
+import time
+
+# Should prefer datetime over time
+
+datetime_unixtime = datetime.datetime.now().timestamp()
+time_unixtime = time.time()
+
+print(
+    f"""
+{datetime_unixtime=}
+{time_unixtime=}
+"""
+)

python-get-current-time/with_datetime.py

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+import datetime
+
+"""
+datetime.datetime.now() is preferred over:
+
+- datetime.utc.now()
+- datetime.today()
+- time.time()
+"""
+
+now = datetime.datetime.now()
+
+print(
+    f"""
+{now=}
+{now.time()=}
+{now.day=}
+{now.isoformat()=}
+{now.weekday()=}
+{now.isoweekday()=}
+{now.isocalendar()=}
+{now.hour=}
+{now.minute=}
+"""
+)
+
+# https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes
+print(now.strftime("%A, %B %d %Z"))
+
+
+# UTC timezone aware object
+
+now = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
+
+print(
+    f"""
+{now=}
+{now.isoformat()=}
+"""
+)
+
+print(now.strftime("%A, %B %d %Z"))
+
+
+# Local timezone aware object
+
+now = datetime.datetime.now().astimezone()
+
+print(
+    f"""
+{now=}
+{now.isoformat()=}
+"""
+)
+
+print(now.strftime("%A, %B %d %Z"))
+
+
+# Alternative local timezone aware object
+
+LOCAL_TIMEZONE = (
+    datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).astimezone().tzinfo
+)
+
+now = datetime.datetime.now(LOCAL_TIMEZONE)
+
+print(
+    f"""
+{now=}
+{now.isoformat()=}
+"""
+)

python-get-current-time/with_time.py

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+import time
+
+# Should prefer using datetime over time
+
+print(
+    f"""
+{time.time()=}
+{time.ctime()}
+{time.gmtime()}
+{time.localtime()}
+"""
+)