Use time from xml instead of time.asctime()

an.py

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 
 import urllib
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
-import time
+# for time.asctime()
+#!import time
 
 # needed for notifyOSX()
 import os
@@ -18,13 +19,11 @@ engineer = "Peterson"
 # period should match cron job period
 period = 120
 
-def notifyConsole(ioc, state):
-  notify_time = time.asctime()
-  print "[%s] %s is %s" % (notify_time, ioc, state)
+def notifyConsole(ioc, state, time_str):
+  print "[%s] %s is %s" % (time_str, ioc, state)
 
-def notifyOSX(ioc, state):
-  notify_time = time.asctime()
-  notify_command = "%s -title \"%s is %s\" -message \"%s\"" % (osx_command, ioc, state, notify_time)
+def notifyOSX(ioc, state, time_str):
+  notify_command = "%s -title \"%s is %s\" -message \"%s\"" % (osx_command, ioc, state, time_str)
   os.system(notify_command)
 
 # set notification function
@@ -47,6 +46,10 @@ f.close()
 #!print "Parsing XML"
 root = ET.fromstring(xml_string)
 
+# Get the date and time
+time_elem = root.find('time')
+time_str = time_elem.text
+
 # Indent for making ET.tostring() output readable
 def _indent(elem, level=0):
   '''
@@ -111,4 +114,4 @@ iocs = ioc_list.keys()
 iocs.sort()
 
 for ioc in iocs:
-  notify(ioc, ioc_list[ioc])
+  notify(ioc, ioc_list[ioc], time_str)