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Feature Request: Display HH:MM In Log Entries In A Minutely Backtest
Peter Cawthron
edited Oct 17, 2013

Hello Quantopian,

At present log entries in minutley backtests are timestamped with just the date. It would be really helpful if they could be timestamped with HH:MM as well. Here is why I ask:

for sid in context.stocks:  
    if data[sid].datetime <> get_datetime():  
        print get_datetime()  
        print "Caution: Forward fill of " + str(sid) + "from " \  
            + str(data[sid].datetime)

gives me:

2008-01-23 PRINT 2008-01-23 14:32:00+00:00  
2008-01-23 PRINT Caution: Forward fill of Security(2 [AA])from 2008-01-23 14:31:00+00:00  
2008-05-09 PRINT 2008-05-09 14:27:00+00:00  
2008-05-09 PRINT Caution: Forward fill of Security(2 [AA])from 2008-05-09 14:26:00+00:00

I wouldn't need to print get_datetime() if HH:MM was in the timestamp.

P.

1 response
Dan Dunn
Oct 17, 2013

Yeah, that one drives me crazy too. It's on the list.

It's not quite as easy to fix as we'd like, though, because of some early back end choices about timezones and browser display. But we will get to it sooner than later.

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