time – time related functions¶
The time module provides functions for getting the current time and date, and for sleeping.
Functions¶
- time.localtime([secs])¶
Convert a time expressed in seconds since Jan 1, 2000 into an 8-tuple which contains: (year, month, mday, hour, minute, second, weekday, yearday) If secs is not provided or None, then the current time from the RTC is used. year includes the century (for example 2014).
- month is 1-12
- mday is 1-31
- hour is 0-23
- minute is 0-59
- second is 0-59
- weekday is 0-6 for Mon-Sun
- yearday is 1-366
- time.mktime()¶
This is inverse function of localtime. It’s argument is a full 8-tuple which expresses a time as per localtime. It returns an integer which is the number of seconds since Jan 1, 2000.
- time.sleep(seconds)¶
Sleep for the given number of seconds. Seconds can be a floating-point number to sleep for a fractional number of seconds.
- time.time()¶
Returns the number of seconds, as an integer, since 1/1/2000.