Python Programming/Date and time

Examples: time.sleep(5) Sleep for five seconds. Keywords: pause, wait. current_time = time.localtime() Gets the current date and time, as object of time.struct_time type. print time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d", time.localtime()) Outputs the current date in the ISO format, e.g. 2016-03-20. print time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.localtime()) Outputs the current date and time, e.g. 2020-04-09 13:37:28. baseClock = time.clock(); time.sleep(5); print time.clock() - baseClock Outputs the time elapsed in seconds, as a floating-point number. Is slightly inaccurate. print (datetime.date(2016, 3, 20) - datetime.date(2016, 2, 20)).days Outputs number of days elapsed between two dates. The type of the difference is datetime.timedelta. External links 15.3. time — Time access and conversions, python.org 8.1. datetime — Basic date and time types, python.org