tiempo.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys
import json
import urllib
import urllib2


def get_datetime():
    """Usa el servicio json-time.appspot.com para obtener el tiempo."""

    query = {'tz': 'America/Lima'}
    query_encoded = urllib.urlencode(query)
    # url = 'http://json-time.appspot.com/time.json'
    try:
        j = urllib.urlopen('http://json-time.appspot.com/time.json?%s'%(query_encoded)).read()
        jtime = json.loads(j)
        return jtime['datetime']
    except Exception, e:
        sys.stderr('No se pudo conseguir el datetime :-( : %s'%e)


def get_datetime2():
    """Usa el servicio thetimenow.com para obtener el tiempo."""

    query = {'tz':'America/Lima'}
    query_encoded = urllib.urlencode(query)
    # url = 'http://www.thetimenow.com/sync.php'
    try:
        j = urllib.urlopen('http://www.thetimenow.com/sync.php?', query_encoded).read()
        jtime = json.loads(j)
        return jtime['America/Lima']
    except Exception, e:
        sys.stderr('No se pudo conseguir el datetime :-( : %s'%e)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print 'Usando json-time.appspot.com'
    print get_datetime()
    print
    print 'Usando thetimenow.com'
    print get_datetime2()