* Upgraded utime_to_iso function to include more formatting.

datetime.py

@@ -37,33 +37,101 @@ def shift_time(t, dt, localtime=True):
   else:
     return time.gmtime(t1)
 
-def utime_to_iso(t=None, local=True):
+
+class utime_to_iso_proc(object):
   """Converts UNIX time (seconds since Epoch) to ISO-formatted time string.
 
   In order to ease time computation/conversion,
   we will use numeric TZ shift (+/-HH:MM) instead of
   letter TZ code (EDT, EST, GMT, etc).
+
+  The full ISO-8601 format is like this:
+
+    YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.fffffffff+AA:BB
+
+  where
+  * YYYY-MM-DD = year, month, date
+  * hh:mm:ss.fff = hour, minute, second, fraction of the second
+  * AA:BB = time shift due to time zone
+
+  But some variants are valid:
+  * YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm    (GNU ls timestyle 'long-iso')
+  * YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm.ss.fffffffff +AA:BB    (GNU ls timestyle 'full-iso')
+
+  There are some built-in formats in this subroutine.
+  They can be tweaked further (adding new formats is OK; but changing
+  existing ones are not recommended).
+
+  The format string will undergo two passes:
+  * first pass, via strftime
+  * second pass, if '%' still exists in the string, expansion using 'opts'
+    computed variables.
+
+  Identifiers for second pass must be named, and must use '%%(NAME)s' kind of
+  format with double percent sign.
+
+  References:
+  * http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
+  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
+  * http://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html  (subheading "Time Strings")
   """
-  from time import time, localtime, gmtime, strftime, timezone
-  if t == None:
-    t = time()
-  if local:
-    tt = localtime(t)
-    dtz = -timezone + tt.tm_isdst * 3600
-    # hopefully dtz is divisible by 60
-    # It would be silly for a gov't to make its time
-    # differ by seconds to GMT!
-    dsec = abs(dtz) % 60
-    dmin = abs(dtz // 60) % 60
-    dhr = dtz // 3600
-    if dsec == 00:
-      sdtz = " %+03d:%02d" % (dhr, dmin)
+  map_fmt_iso = {
+    0: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %%(TZ)s",  # original default of this routine
+    'default': "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %%(TZ)s",  # original default of this routine
+    # Global formats
+    'iso8601': "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%%(NANOSECS)s%%(ZTZ)s", # formal ISO-8601
+    # GNU-specific formats
+    'gnu long-iso': "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M",
+    'gnu full-iso': "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%%(NANOSECS)s %%(TZ)s",
+    # My custom formats
+    'idtstamp': "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%%(MILLISECS)s",
+  }
+  def __init__(self, fmt=0):
+    from copy import copy
+    # Make a copy so we don't clobber the original class:
+    self.map_fmt_iso = copy(self.map_fmt_iso)
+    self.fmt = fmt
+
+  def __call__(self, t=None, local=True, fmt=None):
+    from time import time, localtime, gmtime, strftime, timezone
+    if fmt == None: fmt = self.fmt
+    if t == None:
+      t = time()
+    # The time, the nanosecond part:
+    t_ns = int((t - int(t)) * 1e+9)
+    opts = {
+      'NANOSECS': ("%09.0f" % t_ns),
+      'MICROSECS':  ("%06.0f" % (t_ns // 1000)),
+      'MILLISECS':  ("%03.0f" % (t_ns // 1000000)),
+    }
+    if local:
+      tt = localtime(t)
+      # dtz = Delta time due to Time Zone
+      dtz = -timezone + tt.tm_isdst * 3600
+      # hopefully dtz is divisible by 60
+      # It would be silly for a gov't to make its time
+      # differ by seconds to GMT!
+      dsec = abs(dtz) % 60
+      dmin = abs(dtz // 60) % 60
+      dhr = dtz // 3600
+      if dsec == 00:
+        opts['TZ'] = "%+03d:%02d" % (dhr, dmin)
+      else:
+        optz['TZ'] = "%+03d:%02d:%02d" % (dhr, dmin, dsec)
+      opts['ZTZ'] = opts['TZ']
     else:
-      sdtz = " %+03d:%02d:%02d" % (dhr, dmin, dsec)
-  else:
-    tt = gmtime(t)
-    sdtz = " +00:00"
-  # Numeric timezone offset is created by hand
-  # because I don't want to use %Z, nor do I want to use
-  # "%z" (which did not work in python)
-  return strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", tt) + sdtz
+      tt = gmtime(t)
+      opts['TZ'] = "+00:00"
+      opts['ZTZ'] = "Z"
+    # Numeric timezone offset is created by hand
+    # because I don't want to use %Z, nor do I want to use
+    # "%z" (which did not work in python)
+    fmt = self.map_fmt_iso.get(fmt, fmt)
+    rslt1 = strftime(fmt, tt)
+    if "%" in rslt1:
+      rslt2 = rslt1 % opts
+      return rslt2
+    else:
+      return rslt1
+
+utime_to_iso = utime_to_iso_proc()