Set DateTime Data from strings

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On 20/08/2011 at 07:57, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Trying to set DateTime from external file (exif)
Any pointer how to format the DateTimeData() object?
What I have are strings that need to go "into" the:
mytimedata = DateTimeData()

The code here prints a skyobject datetime, I'd like to go
the other way using my strings as base.

Cheers
Lennart

  
import c4d   
from c4d import gui, DateTimeData   
  
def main() :   
    sky    = doc.GetFirstObject()   
    skybc = sky.GetDataInstance()   
    skydtd = skybc.GetData(c4d.SKY_DATE_TIME)   
    print DateTimeData.GetDateTime(skydtd)

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On 21/08/2011 at 04:53, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi, here is a sample code how to parse a string into a DateTimeData object.
And here you get a list of the directives for the string parser (strptime) :
http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior

import c4d
import datetime
  
from datetime import datetime
from c4d import gui, DateTimeData
  
def main() :
    sky    = doc.GetFirstObject()
    skybc  = sky.GetDataInstance()
  
    td=datetime.strptime('16.07.2011 03:37:12',"%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S")
    
    dtd=DateTimeData()
    #set the datetime.datetime object to the DateTimeData object
    dtd.SetDateTime(td)
  
    skybc.SetData(c4d.SKY_DATE_TIME,dtd)
  
    c4d.EventAdd()
  
main()

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On 21/08/2011 at 05:31, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Great, many thanks.

Cheers
Lennart