adafruit-circuitpython-datetime

Introduction

Basic date and time types. Implements a subset of the CPython datetime module.

NOTE: This library has a large memory footprint and is intended for hardware such as the SAMD51, ESP32-S2, and nRF52.

Dependencies

This driver depends on:

Adafruit CircuitPython

Please ensure all dependencies are available on the CircuitPython filesystem. This is easily achieved by downloading the Adafruit library and driver bundle.

Installing from PyPI

On supported GNU/Linux systems like the Raspberry Pi, you can install the driver locally from PyPI. To install for current user:

pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-datetime

To install system-wide (this may be required in some cases):

sudo pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-datetime

To install in a virtual environment in your current project:

mkdir project-name && cd project-name
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-datetime

Usage Example

# Example of working with a `datetime` object
# from https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#examples-of-usage-datetime
from adafruit_datetime import datetime, date, time

# Using datetime.combine()
d = date(2005, 7, 14)
print(d)
t = time(12, 30)
print(datetime.combine(d, t))

# Using datetime.now()
print("Current time (GMT +1):", datetime.now())

# Using datetime.timetuple() to get tuple of all attributes
dt = datetime(2006, 11, 21, 16, 30)
tt = dt.timetuple()
for it in tt:
    print(it)

print("Today is: ", dt.ctime())

iso_date_string = "2020-04-05T05:04:45.752301"
print("Creating new datetime from ISO Date:", iso_date_string)
isodate = datetime.fromisoformat(iso_date_string)
print("Formatted back out as ISO Date: ", isodate.isoformat())

Documentation

API documentation for this library can be found on Read the Docs.

For information on building library documentation, please check out this guide.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Code of Conduct before contributing to help this project stay welcoming.

License

See LICENSE/ for details.

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