add date fields (#6)

Author: mingness

scripts/add_new_contribution_to_yaml.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """
 given properties, add a new contribution to the contributions.yaml database file.
 """
+from datetime import datetime
 import json
 from sys import argv
 
@@ -37,9 +38,11 @@
 
     # append new contribution with next index
     # add status, at top
+    datetime_today = datetime.utcnow().strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z')
     contribution = {
         'id': max_index + 1,
         'status': 'VALID',
+        'date_added': datetime_today,
     }
     contribution.update(props)
 

scripts/fetch_updates.py

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 
 
 def update_contribution(contribution, props):
+  datetime_today = datetime.utcnow().strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z')
+  contribution['last_updated'] = datetime_today
+
   # update from online
   for field in props.keys():
     # process category list
@@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ def log_broken(contribution, msg):
     contribution['log'].append(msg)
 
 def process_contribution(contribution):
-  date_today = datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
+  date_today = datetime.utcnow().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
   this_version = '0'
 
   if contribution['status'] != 'DEPRECATED':