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In [3]: time.time()

Out[3]: 1508852319.6068738

In [4]: help(time.time)

Help on built-in function time in module time:

time(...)

time() -> floating point number

Return the current time in seconds since the Epoch.

Fractions of a second may be present if the system clock provides them.

In [6]: time.clock()

Out[6]: 4.105489737712577e-07

In [8]: time.gmtime()

Out[8]: time.struct_time(tm_year=2017, tm_mon=10, tm_mday=24, tm_hour=13, tm_min=44, tm_sec=15, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=297, tm_isdst=0)

In [9]: time.localtime()

Out[9]: time.struct_time(tm_year=2017, tm_mon=10, tm_mday=24, tm_hour=21, tm_min=47, tm_sec=24, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=297, tm_isdst=0)

In [11]: time.localtime().tm_mon

Out[11]: 10

In [12]: time.localtime().tm_mday

Out[12]: 24

In [16]: time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",time.localtime())

Out[16]: '2017-10-24 21:59:02'

In [17]: time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

Out[17]: '2017-10-24 22:00:21'

In [18]: time.strptime('2017-10-24 22:00:21',"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

Out[18]: time.struct_time(tm_year=2017, tm_mon=10, tm_mday=24, tm_hour=22, tm_min=0, tm_sec=21, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=297, tm_isdst=-1)

In [23]: time.ctime(time.time()+1000)

Out[23]: 'Tue Oct 24 22:24:26 2017'

In [25]: time.mktime(time.localtime())

Out[25]: 1508854287.0

time() -- return current time in seconds since the Epoch as a float

clock() -- return CPU time since process start as a float

sleep() -- delay for a number of seconds given as a float

gmtime() -- convert seconds since Epoch to UTC tuple

localtime() -- convert seconds since Epoch to local time tuple

asctime() -- convert time tuple to string

ctime() -- convert time in seconds to string

mktime() -- convert local time tuple to seconds since Epoch

strftime() -- convert time tuple to string according to format specification

strptime() -- parse string to time tuple according to format specification

tzset() -- change the local timezone

In [47]: time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",time.localtime(123456789))

Out[47]: '1973-11-30 05:33:09'

In [50]: time.mktime(time.strptime('1973-11-30 05:33:09',"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))

Out[50]: 123456789.0

time.time()

return current time in seconds since the Epoch as a float

In [52]: time.time()

Out[52]: 1508856310.5973513

time.clock()

return CPU time since process start as a float

In [54]: time.clock()

Out[54]: 3867.513597997835

time.sleep(seconds)

delay for a number of seconds given as a float

In [56]: time.sleep(1)

time.gmtime(seconds=None)

convert seconds since Epoch to UTC tuple

In [57]: time.gmtime(123456)

Out[57]: time.struct_time(tm_year=1970, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=2, tm_hour=10, tm_min=17, tm_sec=36, tm_wday=4, tm_yday=2, tm_isdst=0)

time.localtime(seconds=None)

convert seconds since Epoch to local time tuple

In [60]: time.localtime(123456)

Out[60]: time.struct_time(tm_year=1970, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=2, tm_hour=18, tm_min=17, tm_sec=36, tm_wday=4, tm_yday=2, tm_isdst=0)

time.ctime(seconds=None)

convert time in seconds to string

In [61]: time.ctime()

Out[61]: 'Tue Oct 24 22:52:54 2017'

time.mktime(p_tuple)

convert local time tuple to seconds since Epoch

In [63]: time.mktime(time. localtime (123456))

Out[63]: 123456.0

time.strftime(format, p_tuple=None)

convert time tuple to string according to format specification

In[64]: time.strftime("%y-%m-%d")

Out[64]: '17-10-24'

time.strptime(string, format)

parse string to time tuple according to format specification

In [65]: time.strptime('17-10-24',"%y-%m-%d")

Out[65]: time.struct_time(tm_year=2017, tm_mon=10, tm_mday=24, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=297, tm_isdst=-1)