date-time-handler

Robust date-time formatter with implicit time-zone conversion, wraps datetime and pytz

Out of the box solution for quick and easy proto-type building

• Uses Python3 standard library time and datetime
• Requires pytz and dateutil to be installed:

    $ pip3 install pytz
    $ pip3 install python-dateutil

• date_time_handler package contains class DateTimeHandler with methods that convert timestamp format and time-zone
• By default, DateTimeHandler performs timezone-naive timestamp format conversion (handy for quick display formatting)
• For implicit timezone conversion:
  • set destination tz with kwarg time_zone = 'region/local' at instantiation
  • then kwarg start_tz = 'region/local' when converting timestamp format
• All methods take 'timestamp' in any format: int/float, tuple/struct, formatted_string, and even datetime obj

examples

for time-zone agnostic format conversion

>>> dt_format = DateTimeHandler(date_format = "%Y/%m/%d", clock_format = "%H:%M:%S")
>>> timestring = dt_format.timestring(timestamp)
>>> timetuple = dt_format.timetuple(timestamp)
>>> datestamp = dt_format.datestamp(timestamp)

for time-zone conversion, set destination tz at instantiation

>>> dt_format = DateTimeHandler(time_zone = 'US/Pacific')

    # specify starting timezone when converting timestamp #
>>> local_timestring = dt_format.timestring(utc_timestamp, start_tz = 'UTC')
>>> local_timetuple = dt_format.timetuple(utc_timestamp, start_tz = 'UTC')

so-called 'date' methods return the given timestamp's date @ 00:00:00

>>> local_datestring = dt_format.datestring(utc_timestamp, start_tz = 'UTC')
>>> local_datetuple = dt_format.datetuple(utc_timestamp, start_tz = 'UTC')