# import needed java classes
from java.util import SimpleTimeZone
from visad import DateTime

# import a python class
import time

addeParms = dict(
  server = 'adde.ucar.edu',
  dataset = 'GINIEAST',
  descriptor = 'GE1KVIS',
  accounting = ('IDV', '0'),
  size=(480,640),
  coordinateSystem=LATLON,
  place=CENTER,
  location=(39, -93),
  unit='BRIT',
)

metaDataVIS, visDATA = getADDEImage(band=1,**addeParms)


nominalTime = metaDataVIS["nominal-time"]

# set the timezone in the date string to UTC
timeZoneObject = SimpleTimeZone(0,"UTC")

#NOTE:  In McIDAS-V versions 1.3 or earlier, getADDEImage metadata returns the nominal 
# and start times as java.util.Date object
# McIDAS-V version 1.4, returns a visad.DateTime object
# account for this difference here.

if isinstance(nominalTime, java.util.Date):
  nominalTime = DateTime(nominalTime)
  time.sleep(3)
elif isinstance(nominalTime, DateTime):
  pass
else:
  myException = 'TypeError: The variable nominalTime contains the value: "' +nominalTime+ '." This is not a java.util.Date or visad.DateTime'
  raise(myException)

theYearJulianDayVersion = nominalTime.formattedString("yyyyDDD HHmmss", timeZoneObject)
theYMDVersion = nominalTime.formattedString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", timeZoneObject)
theYMD_TimeZoneVersion = nominalTime.formattedString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss z", timeZoneObject)

print theYearJulianDayVersion
print theYMDVersion
print theYMD_TimeZoneVersion