Python time formatting different in Windows
cross-platform, python
Solution
In general, you'll find that python `time.strftime()` supports the same set of format specifiers as the platform (or that platform's libc to be more specific) it runs on. However, only a subset of these is portable. See http://docs.python.org/library/time.html for a list. To quote the docs:
Additional directives may be supported on certain platforms, but only the ones listed here have a meaning standardized by ANSI C.
In this case, `%T` can be replaced by `%H:%M:%S`.
Problem
I'm probably missing an obvious platform difference that I should be accommodating but I'm getting this when trying to do a time format (Python2.7)... in Linux env: ``` >>> import time >>> time.strftime("%a, %d-%b-%Y %T GMT", time.gmtime()) 'Tue, 29-May-2012 21:42:04 GMT' ``` in Windows: ``` >>> import time >>> time.strftime("%a, %d-%b-%Y %T GMT", time.gmtime()) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: Invalid format string ``` The tuples returned from time.gmtime() appear to be the same, so I'm not completely sure what I need to change.