I have his line in python. I would like it to output month and year as MM/YYYY. What is the best way to do this.
time.ctime(os.path.getmtime(os.path.join(dir_path, file_name)))
Current output:
Wed Sep 26 08:57:26 2012
I would like 9/2012
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use time.strftimeHamms– Hamms2016-05-13 21:52:34 +00:00Commented May 13, 2016 at 21:52
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time.ctime is documented to return a "string representing local time". It doesn't say what that string is (or how it's formatted), so I assume it's probably platform specific.
Instead, you'll probably want to use datetime.
secs = os.path.getmtime(os.path.join(dir_path, file_name))
date = datetime.date.fromtimestamp(secs)
formatted = date.strftime('%m/%Y')
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ts = os.path.getmtime(os.path.join(dir_path, file_name))
print(time.strftime('%m/%Y', time.gmtime(ts)))
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mgilson
I'm not sure about how you want to handle timezones here, but this will give you the month/year in GMT. If you want it in local time, I think that you need
time.localtime(ts) instead of time.gmtime(ts).
fallingdog
I don't care too much about the time zone. My goal is to detect mxds (esri's map documents, ArcGIS) that have been modified in the last three years and if so I need to point all of the data sources to our new database.