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I’m running a code that prints the hours on the terminal but when I use the code below it brings me a totally wrong value on time:
Code:
from time import gmtime, strftime
print(strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", gmtime()))
Follows the value it returns:
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You want to print the local time and the correct function for this is the localtime(), and not the gmtime() which gives you the universal call time (no time zone).
from time import localtime, strftime
print(strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", localtime()))
Behold working in the ideone. And in the repl it.. Also put on the Github for future reference.
Just be careful because in many cases it is right to work with universal time and not local. We even see a lot of questions here from people who are having a hard time getting started on systems wrong and then can’t get any more.
Conceptually there is already a mistake in this +0000 which gives misleading information, and even a +0300 will only be right by coincidence at certain times of the year. But the subject is absurdly extensive to put here.
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And how can we know what is wrong? For me it is right. By chance this gives the result you expect?
print(strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", localtime()))– Maniero
Yes, so it was without any anomaly, would you happen to know where could be the error in my code? 'Cause I followed exactly the code of your documentation
– Bruno G
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