datetime

cloudly.util.datetime.utcnow() → datetime

cloudly.util.datetime.easternnow() → datetime

cloudly.util.datetime.centralnow() → datetime

cloudly.util.datetime.pacificnow() → datetime

cloudly.util.datetime.tznow(tzname) → datetime

Get the current datetime in the specified timezone.

Args:

tzname: the ISO standard timezone name, such as Africa/Cairo, America/Los_Angeles.

cloudly.util.datetime.isonow() → str

This function creates a timestamp string with fixed format like

‘2020-08-22T08:09:13.401346+00:00’

The returned string has fixed length. The microseconds section always takes 6 digits, even if they are all zeros.

Strings created by this function can be compared to determine time order. There is no need to parse the string into datetime objects.

The returned string is often written as a timestamp file, like

open(file_name, ‘w’).write(make_timestamp())

Another way to make a fixed-length datetime str is to use datetime.strftime(‘%Y%m%d%H%M%S.%f’).