Adding Time

[ahuacatlan]

Hi,
I would like to take a variable that is the current time and add times to it. I would like the script to print what 5:30 + 45 minutes is.

This is what I have so far:

from time import localtime, strftime

currenttime = strftime("%H:%M", localtime())
currentday = strftime("%a", localtime())
print "The current time is", currenttime, "and the today is", currentday

if currentday == "Mon":
print "lessons begin in", currenttime + 45 minutes

I need help with what to put in place of the 45 minutes
Thanks!
james

 

[azimuth0]

Please use [ignore]

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[/ignore] to type in code blocks. It makes reading it much nicer.

localtime() takes an argument, which is a time expressed in seconds. So you can just add 45 minutes in seconds to the current time to get the answer you want:

import time
currenttime = time.time()
print time.strftime('%H:%M', time.localtime(currenttime + 45 * 60))

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[ahuacatlan]

Thanks!
but is there a way to display the time in a 12 hour format?

 

[ericbrunson]

There sure is and you can find it in the python manual in section 6.11 "time -- Time access and conversions".

 

[ahuacatlan]

Where is this manual?

 

[ZaSter]

Look here: Python Programming Language