tsx 0.1.1

TimeStam eXtensions for Python

tsx

Time Stamp eXtensions for Python

This library was created as a response to the known Python datetime standard library flaw that violates ISO

8601. ( Example )

Under the hood, it uses external dateparser library that's fully compatible with ISO 8601, and it simplifies working

with date & time stamps.

It also handles properly the Daylight Saving Time (summer time).

Installation

pip pinstall tsx

Usage:

The library is pretty simple, its central class is TS, which inhertis Python builtin float,

so every timestamp in fact is a float representing number of seconds since Epoch.

The TSMsec is the same TS with only difference that it's constructor by default expects msec precision, i.e. number

of msecs since epoch,

but internally it will store the same float as number of seconds since Epoch.

TS(ts: Union[int, float, str], prec: Literal["s", "ms"] = "s")`



TSMsec(ts: Union[int, float, str], prec: Literal["s", "ms"] = "ms")

• prec - is precision of the ts argument.

  • If prec=="s" - the ts argument will be interpreted as nr of seconds since epoch,

  • If prec=="ms" - the ts argument will be interpreted as nr of milliseconds since epoch

Example:

ts = TS(ts="1519855200.123856", prec="s")



ts == 1519855200.123856

ts.as_iso == '2018-02-28T22:00:00.123856Z'

ts.as_iso_tz(pytz.timezone("Europe/Bucharest")) == '2018-03-01T00:00:00.123856+02:00'



TS("2018-02-28T22:00:00.123Z")

TS("2018-02-28T22:00:00.123")



TS("2018-02-28T22:00:00.123+00:00")

ts = TS.now()



ts.as_sec == 1234567890.123

ts.as_ms == 1234567890123

ts.as_file_date == '20090213'

ts.as_file_ts == '20090213-233130'

Changelog

0.1.0

• Added the utc:bool=True parameter to TS constructor, which if set to True (by default) will force the timestamp to

  be interpreted as UTC, thus `TS('2018-02-28T22:00:00') will be interpreted as UTC, and not as local time, even if it

  doesn't have explicit TZ info.

• Improved speed of TS.from_iso(). For Python <3.11 it uses ciso8601 which is

  the fastest ISO 8601 parser, and for Python >= 3.11 it uses the builtin datetime.fromisoformat().

• some minor parsing speed improvements

• added public time utility variables FIRST_MONDAY_TS, DAY_SEC, DAY_MSEC, WEEK_SEC