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This page was last modified 10:26, 22 June 2008.

From Forum Nokia Wiki

This is how you can set the time on the phone using PyS60.

import e32
 
e32.set_home_time(target_time_in_Unix_timestamp)
 
#Unix timestamp means seconds since Jan 1 1970 00:00:00

Note: Setting the time this way works on the emulator, but on a real device, you will need special permission, meaning that you will have to sign the application with the capability "WriteDeviceData"

In order to check various time values, you can do something like this:

from time import *
 
print localtime(UnixTS)
#Returns a tuple such as (2008, 4, 10, 20, 34, 2, 3, 101, 1),
#corrsponding to the value of UnixTS (optional parameter)
#If no parameter is specified, it returns the current date and time
 
print mktime(localtime())
#Returns the corresponding unix timestamp, in this case 1207848751.0

More information about the time module can be found here