#! /usr/bin/env python # Sanity checker for time.strftime import time, calendar, sys, string, os verbose = 0 if __name__ == '__main__': verbose = 1 now = time.time() fp = os.popen('date') fromdate = string.strip(fp.readline()) fp.close() nowsecs = int(now) gmt = time.gmtime(now) now = time.localtime(now) if gmt[3] < 12: ampm='AM' else: ampm='PM' jan1 = time.localtime(time.mktime((now[0], 1, 1) + (0,)*6)) wk1offset = jan1[6] - 6 if now[8]: tz = time.tzname[1] else: tz = time.tzname[0] if now[3] >=12: clock12 = now[3] - 12 else: clock12 = now[3] # descriptions are a mixture of those from the BSD/OS v2.0 man page # (known to be incorrect in some instances) and the documentation for # Python's time module expectations = ( ('%A', calendar.day_name[now[6]], 'full weekday name'), ('%a', calendar.day_abbr[now[6]], 'abbreviated weekday name'), ('%B', calendar.month_name[now[1]], 'full month name'), ('%b', calendar.month_abbr[now[1]], 'abbreviated month name'), ('%h', calendar.month_abbr[now[1]], 'abbreviated month name'), ('%c', time.asctime(now), 'asctime() format'), ('%D', '%02d/%02d/%02d' % (now[1], now[2], (now[0]%100)), 'mm/dd/yy'), ('%d', '%02d' % now[2], 'day of month as number (00-31)'), ('%e', '%2d' % now[2], 'day of month as number, blank padded ( 0-31)'), ('%H', '%02d' % now[3], 'hour (00-23)'), ('%I', '%02d' % clock12, 'hour (00-12)'), ('%j', '%03d' % now[7], 'julian day (001-366)'), ('%M', '%02d' % now[4], 'minute, (00-59)'), ('%m', '%02d' % now[1], 'month as number (01-12)'), ('%n', '\n', 'newline character'), ('%p', ampm, 'AM or PM as appropriate'), ('%R', '%02d:%02d' % (now[3], now[4]), '%H:%M'), ('%r', '%02d:%02d:%02d %s' % (clock12, now[4], now[5], ampm), '%I:%M:%S %p'), ('%t', '\t', 'tab character'), ('%S', '%02d' % now[5], 'seconds of current time (00-60)'), ('%T', '%02d:%02d:%02d' % (now[3], now[4], now[5]), '%H:%M:%S'), ('%X', '%02d:%02d:%02d' % (now[3], now[4], now[5]), '%H:%M:%S'), ('%U', '%02d' % (1+(wk1offset+now[7])/7), 'week number of the year (Sun 1st)'), ('%W', '%02d' % (1+now[7]/7), 'week number of the year (Mon 1st)'), ('%w', '%d' % (1+now[6]), 'weekday as a number (Sun 1st)'), ('%x', '%02d/%02d/%02d' % (now[1], now[2], (now[0]%100)), '%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S'), ('%Y', '%d' % now[0], 'year with century'), ('%y', '%02d' % (now[0]%100), 'year without century'), ('%Z', tz, 'time zone name'), ('%%', '%', 'single percent sign'), ) nonstandard_expectations = ( ('%C', fromdate, 'date(1) format'), ('%k', '%2d' % now[3], 'hour, blank padded ( 0-23)'), ('%s', '%d' % nowsecs, 'seconds since the Epoch in UCT'), ('%3y', '%03d' % (now[0]%100), 'year without century rendered using fieldwidth'), ) if verbose: print "Strftime test, platform: %s, Python version: %s" % \ (sys.platform, string.split(sys.version)[0]) expectations = expectations + nonstandard_expectations for e in expectations: result = time.strftime(e[0], now) if result == e[1]: continue if result[0] == '%': print "Does not appear to support '%s' format" % e[0] else: print "Conflict for %s (%s):" % (e[0], e[2]) print " Expected %s, but got %s" % (e[1], result)