3. Clarification: timestamp on datafeed return unclear value
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Clarification: timestamp on datafeed return unclear value

  • J

    I'm trying to understand a certain value of datetime that I can't understand.

    step by step:

    1. loading a .csv file with custom GenericCSVData.
    2. datetime is in timestamp format, so 'params' will have 'dtformat' set to 1 (int timestamp format)
    3. adding a simple strategy that on 'next' will try to print the timestamp value

    the timestamp I used in the data: 1364636880 (which correlate to '30 March 2013 09:48:00')
    if I do 'print((self.datas[0].datetime)[0])' I get: 734957.9999999999
    and if I do ''print(self.datas[0].datetime.date(0))' I get: 2013-03-30

    my clarification question is just to understand what is the value '(self.datas[0].datetime)[0]' represents? (734957.9999999999)

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    @jacob said in Clarification: timestamp on datafeed return unclear value:

    the timestamp I used in the data: 1364636880 (which correlate to '30 March 2013 09:48:00')
    if I do 'print((self.datas[0].datetime)[0])' I get: 734957.9999999999
    and if I do ''print(self.datas[0].datetime.date(0))' I get: 2013-03-30

    Your input date is the 30th of March of 2013 and the output is in isoformat 2013-03-30.

    Were you expecting anything else?

    @jacob said in Clarification: timestamp on datafeed return unclear value:

    my clarification question is just to understand what is the value '(self.datas[0].datetime)[0]' represents? (734957.9999999999)

    It's the timestamp coded inside a float.

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  • J

    was just wondering if I could easily make sense of the date format.
    was expecting the unix style timestamp

    I'm focusing now on learning the library and although a lot of things are very intuitive.
    some things I can't see while debugging which leave a gap in my understanding.

    I will give an example of what i mean:
    if while debugging I 'watch' self.datas[0] I don't see in the object hierarchy having '.datetime' yet alone find it also have .date() function.

    this leave me with a concern that i will not be able to fully use the system cause i can't see everything.
    (found the above code in the docs but i doubt i could have found it myself)

    I switched now to use pycharm (instead of VS) but still can't see attributes like '.datetime'
    but it did help me find the num2date() function that convert the float number to a normal date

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    @jacob said in Clarification: timestamp on datafeed return unclear value:

    was expecting the unix style timestamp

    From Wikipedia - Unix time:

    Unix time (also known as POSIX time[citation needed] or UNIX Epoch time[1]) is a system for describing a point in time, defined as the number of seconds

    It would be difficult to express anything in the sub-second realm with the Unix timestamp.

    @jacob said in Clarification: timestamp on datafeed return unclear value:

    if while debugging I 'watch' self.datas[0] I don't see in the object hierarchy having '.datetime' yet alone find it also have .date() function.

    I believe in this case the trees don't let you see the forest. If something is not found in a lines object itself, it will be sought in the defined lines. And datetime is one of the defined lines for an OHLC timeseries.

    You probably want to read this: Docs - Platform Concepts and specifically the section (and its subsections) Lines

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  • J

    Thanks @backtrader for the explanation

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