Re: [pcp] Help with Python API

[Rohan Arora <rarora2012@xxxxxxxxx>]

From what I can tell, the information in that tv_sec and tv_usec only contain the information for the month, day, and year. For the time I simply get midnight, or 12:00AM. Is that correct, or am I missing something? For example, when converting the timestamps for metrics gathered yesterday 07/07/2015, I get the following results for the timestamp:

  Â07/07/2015 00:00:00 for tv_sec

  Â01/07/1970 00:00:00 for tv_usec

The code I used to extract that is:

  Âdatetime.date.fromtimestamp(result.contents.timestamp.tv_usec).strftime("%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")

Thanks,

Rohan

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:43 AM Rohan Arora <rarora2012@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Whoops, sorry, I didn't realize that it was just a generic timestamp like that, I don't have much experience with time libraries honestly. Thanks for the help!

Best,

Rohan

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 5:52 PM David Smith <dsmith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 07/07/2015 09:47 AM, Rohan Arora wrote:
> I am able to get the tv_sec and tv_usec properties from the result using
> "result.contents.timestamp.tv_sec", but I don't know how to convert that
> back into an actual timestamp with format, say, "MM/dd/yyy HH:mm:ss". Is
> there a way to do this?

That's a generic python question, not really pcp related.

Basically, use datetime.fromtimestamp() to convert the tv_sec/tv_usec
values to a python datetime object, then use the strftime() function to
format it however you want.

<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15649942/python-convert-epoch-time-with-nanoseconds-to-human-readable>
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10611328/format-nanoseconds-in-python>

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