Fetch atomic time for your current locale in Python.

atomic_time.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import re
import urllib2


def fetch_data():
    return str(urllib2.urlopen('http://time.is').read())


def find_patterns(pattern, text):
    return re.findall(pattern, text)


def process_results():
    patterns = map(
        re.compile, [r'<div id="twd">(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d)', r'<span id="ampm"[^>]*>(.*?)</span>'])
    data = fetch_data()
    out = ''
    for pattern in patterns:
        out = out + ' ' + ''.join(find_patterns(pattern, data))
    return out

if __name__ == '__main__':
    result = process_results()

    # ex: 07:36:48 PM
    print(result.strip())