Utility to deal with timestamps, including a timestamp format of my own creation: "base10x60timestamp".
The format:
YYYYMMDDthms
| Digits | Description |
|---|---|
| YYYY | year, base10 digits |
| MM | month, base10 digits |
| DD | date, base10 digits |
| t | timezone ("-" for UTC, which is the only valid choice right now) |
| h | hours, base60 digit (RFC 1924 style) (0-N which is 0-23) |
| m | minutes, base60 digit (0-x, which is 0-59) |
| s | seconds, base60 digit (0-x, which is 0-59) |
Example:
- 20180720-3mf -> 2018-07-20T03:48:41+00:00
Just the time portion from the example:
- 3mf -> 03:48:41
"base60" digit is compatible with the RFC 1924 base85 format:
- 0-9: 0-9
- A-Z: 10-35
- a-x: 36-59
This makes the date timestamps sort reasonably on a system supporting lower ascii (UTF-7). base60 makes the time compact but still marginally readable.
Having "-" represent "UTC" reserves that character in a readable way. It's possible that future versions might use other characters to represent a timezone offset.
epoch is a utility to convert to/from seconds from epoch.
usage: epoch [-h] [-b] [-u] [-i] [timestr]
Convert string to or from epoch (as appropriate)
positional arguments:
timestr string to convert
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-b, --base60time use YYMMDD and base60 time
-u, --utc show UTC
-i, --integer round off to nearest second
epoch is only tangentally related to base60time, because when I started using base10x60timestamps, this was the utility I added it to.