While working on a project I had a need to subtract 1 hour from the current time. We are running Python 2 on linux and I could not quite find a function that did what I wanted.
#!/usr/bin/python #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # # Name : subtract_hour.py # Purpose : Subtracts 1 hour from the current time on the remote server # # Jul 16, 2016 Dean Capps Created new # #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # import sys import datetime remote_time = sys.argv[1] yy = int(remote_time[0:4]) mm = int(remote_time[4:6]) dd = int(remote_time[6:8]) hh = int(remote_time[8:10]) mi = int(remote_time[10:12]) remote_time_minus_1_hour=datetime.datetime(yy, mm, dd, hh, mi) - datetime.timedelta(hours=1) yy = str(remote_time_minus_1_hour)[0:4] mm = str(remote_time_minus_1_hour)[5:7] dd = str(remote_time_minus_1_hour)[8:10] hh = str(remote_time_minus_1_hour)[11:13] mi = str(remote_time_minus_1_hour)[14:16] remote_time_minus_1_hour = yy+mm+dd+hh+mi print remote_time_minus_1_hour
