XML RPC client for datetime server

xmlrpc-datetime-client.py

# http://docs.python.org/2/library/xmlrpclib.html

import xmlrpclib
import datetime

proxy = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://localhost:8000/")

today = proxy.today()
# convert the ISO8601 string to a datetime object
converted = datetime.datetime.strptime(today.value, "%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S")
print "Today: %s" % converted.strftime("%d.%m.%Y, %H:%M")