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+# Copyright (c) 2001 Autonomous Zone Industries
+# Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn
+# This file is licensed under the
+# GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1.
+# See the file COPYING or visit http://www.gnu.org/ for details.
+
+# ISO-8601:
+# http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
+
+import datetime, re, time
+
+def iso_utc(now=None, sep='_', t=time.time):
+ if now is None:
+ now = t()
+ return datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(now).isoformat(sep)
+
+def iso_utc_time_to_localseconds(isotime, _conversion_re=re.compile(r"(?P<year>\d{4})-(?P<month>\d{2})-(?P<day>\d{2})[T_](?P<hour>\d{2}):(?P<minute>\d{2}):(?P<second>\d{2})(?P<subsecond>\.\d+)?")):
+ """
+ The inverse of iso_utc().
+
+ Real ISO-8601 is "2003-01-08T06:30:59". We also accept the widely
+ used variants "2003-01-08_06:30:59" and "2003-01-08 06:30:59".
+ """
+ m = _conversion_re.match(isotime)
+ if not m:
+ raise ValueError, (isotime, "not a complete ISO8601 timestamp")
+ year, month, day = int(m.group('year')), int(m.group('month')), int(m.group('day'))
+ hour, minute, second = int(m.group('hour')), int(m.group('minute')), int(m.group('second'))
+ utcseconds = time.mktime( (year, month, day, hour, minute, second, 0, 1, 0) )
+ localseconds = utcseconds - time.timezone
+ subsecstr = m.group('subsecond')
+ if subsecstr:
+ subsecfloat = float(subsecstr)
+ localseconds += subsecfloat
+ return localseconds
+