from datetime import datetime, timedelta KBITS = 128 bytes_per_second = KBITS * 1024 // 8 start = datetime.now().replace(minute=0, second=0) - timedelta(hours=3) end = start + timedelta(hours=6) delta = timedelta(hours=1) t = start while t < end: fn = 'tmp/qfhi-{:04d}{:02d}{:02d}-{:02d}{:02d}.mp3'.format( t.year, t.month, t.day, t.hour, t.minute) print(fn) f = open(fn, 'w') f.write('\0' * (int(delta.total_seconds()) * bytes_per_second)) f.close() t += delta