randomtimestamp 1.0.0

Generate random time stamps

randomtimestamp

Random timestamp generator

Usage

randomtimestamp can be used from the command line or imported as a python package.

Command line usage

To use the script from command line

  $randomtimestamp
  30-08-1995 17:58:14

Python Package Usage

The function randomtimestamp takes two optional arguments:

randomtimestamp(start_year=1950,text=True)

The default values of start_year and text are 1950 and True respectively. The timestamp is generated between 1950 and current year (datetime.now().year). Although a year before 1950 could have been used, but it didn't seem to be necessary.

By default, the function returns the output as string in format (DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM:SS), where HH is in 24-hour format. Setting text=False returns a datetime object.

Here are examples of all the possible syntaxes:

  >>>from randomtimestamp import randomtimestamp

  >>>randomtimestamp()
  '02-06-1970 23:34:10'

  >>>randomtimestamp(2010)
  '02-06-2013 23:34:10'  

  >>>randomtimestamp(start_year=2005)
  '10-04-2015 10:55:02'  

  >>>randomtimestamp(2010,False)
  datetime.datetime(2010, 5, 16, 3, 32, 18)

  >>>randomtimestamp(text=False)
  datetime.datetime(1951, 2, 13, 18, 19, 1)

License

This project is released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE V3.