Entry

Display time as English sentence

Jul 5th, 2000 10:00
Nathan Wallace, unknown unknown, Hans Nowak, Snippet 125, Klaus Alexander Seistrup

"""
Packages: miscellaneous.mundane
"""
#!/usr/bin/env python
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## Copyright © 1997-99 Klaus Alexander Seistrup @ Magnetic Ink, Copenhagen, DK.
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## QTime -- display time as English sentence.
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## Author  : 1997 Klaus Alexander Seistrup <kseis@magnetic-ink.dk>
## Created : Wednesday, 15th January 1997
## @(#) $Id: qtime.py,v 1.3 2021/01/29 11:51:57 kseis Exp $
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"""QTime - display time as English sentence"""
__RCSid__ = \
__MAGIC__ = "@(#) $Id: qtime.py,v 1.3 2021/01/29 11:51:57 kseis Exp $\0"
import time
UP = ("to ", "", "past ")
NY = ("nearly ", "almost ", "", "just after ", "after ")
MN = ("", "five ", "ten ", "a quarter ", "twenty ", "twenty-five ", "half ")
HR = ("twelve", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven",
      "eight", "nine", "ten", "eleven")
def secs_since_midnight ():
	tm = time.localtime (time.time ())
	return (tm[3] * 60 + tm[4]) * 60 + tm[5]
# end def get_sys_secs
def qt ():
	adj_mins = (secs_since_midnight () + 30) / 60 + 27
	hours, minutes = divmod (adj_mins, 60)
	divisions, almost = divmod (minutes, 5)
	to_past_idx = cmp (divisions, 5) + 1
	divisions = abs (divisions - 5)
	now = "It's " + NY[almost] + MN[divisions] + UP[to_past_idx] + HR[hours%12]
	if not divisions:
		return now + " o'clock"
	# end if
	return now
# end def qt
def qtime ():
	print qt () + "."
# end def main
main = qtime
if __name__ == "__main__":
	main ()
# end if
## EOF
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