Question

Is there an easy way to create a timestamp, in XML Schema format?

datetime.datetime.now() does not work.

.now(): 2012-02-17 09:52:35.033232

Desired: 2012-02-15T14:18:46.295-02:00

Looks pretty much the same, but fails on schema validation.

Answer 1

>>> datetime.datetime.now(pytz.utc).isoformat()
'2012-02-17T11:58:44.789024+00:00'

>>> datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone('Europe/Paris')).isoformat()
'2012-02-17T13:00:10.885743+01:00'

apply your own time zone if needed.