import pyb

start_year = 2014

start_month = 8

start_day = 19

start_weekday = 2 # Tuesday (1-7 is Monday to Sunday)

start_hours = 23

start_minutes = 22

start_seconds = 45

start_subseconds = 255 # this is a value that counts down from 255 to 0

clock = pyb.RTC()

# datetime() takes one parameter (an 8-tuple) hence the double bracket (()) below

clock.datetime((start_year, start_month, start_day, start_weekday, start_hours, start_minutes, start_seconds, start_subseconds))

# weekday in datetime() understands Monday as 1 and Sunday as 7

days_of_the_week = ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday' ]

while True:

# clock.datetime() returns an 8-tuple

clock_tuple = clock.datetime()

'''

year = clock_tuple()[0]

month = clock_tuple()[1]

day = clock_tuple()[2]

weekday = clock_tuple()[3]

hour = clock_tuple()[4]

min = clock_tuple()[5]

sec = clock_tuple()[6]

# subsec = clock_tuple()[7] # likely we wont be using this hence it's commented

'''

#print('The time is', hour,':',min,':',sec)

#print('Today\'s date is', day,'.',month,'.',year)

#print('Today is a', days_of_the_week[weekday])

pyb.delay(100)