inital commit for getting current date in right form

Author: isaacwellish

PyPortal_on_this_day/get_date.py

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+"""
+Get the current day and return string as 'xx/xx'
+"""
+
+import time
+import board
+import neopixel
+from adafruit_pyportal import PyPortal
+from adafruit_bitmap_font import bitmap_font
+from adafruit_display_text.Label import Label
+
+# determine the current working directory
+# needed so we know where to find files
+cwd = ("/"+__file__).rsplit('/', 1)[0]
+
+# initialize the pyportal object and let us know what data to fetch and where
+# to display it
+pyportal = PyPortal(status_neopixel=board.NEOPIXEL,
+                    default_bg=0x000000)
+
+
+
+while True:
+    try:
+        print("Getting time from internet!")
+        pyportal.get_local_time()
+    except RuntimeError as e:
+        print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e)
+        continue
+    break
+
+
+refresh_time = None
+
+while True:
+    time_now = time.localtime()
+    # only query the online time once per hour (and on first run)
+    if (not refresh_time) or (time.monotonic() - refresh_time) > 3600:
+        try:
+            print("Getting time from internet!")
+            pyportal.get_local_time()
+            refresh_time = time.monotonic()
+            month, day = time_now[1:3]
+            #month = time_now[1]
+            #day = time_now[2]
+            print("the day is")
+            print(month, "_", day)
+
+        except RuntimeError as e:
+            print("Some error occured, retrying! -", e)
+            continue
+