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| <span id="time-time-access-and-conversions"></span><h1><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code> — Time access and conversions<a class="headerlink" href="#module-time" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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| <p>This module provides various time-related functions. For related
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| functionality, see also the <a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="calendar.html#module-calendar" title="calendar: Functions for working with calendars, including some emulation of the Unix cal program."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">calendar</span></code></a> modules.</p>
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| <p>Although this module is always available,
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| defined in this module call platform C library functions with the same name.  It
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| semantics of these functions varies among platforms.</p>
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| <p>An explanation of some terminology and conventions is in order.</p>
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| <span id="epoch"></span><ul class="simple" id="index-0">
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| <li><p>The <em class="dfn">epoch</em> is the point where the time starts, the return value of
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| <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.gmtime(0)</span></code>. It is January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 (UTC) on all platforms.</p></li>
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| </ul>
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| <ul class="simple" id="index-1">
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| <li><p>The term <em class="dfn">seconds since the epoch</em> refers to the total number
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| of elapsed seconds since the epoch, typically excluding
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| <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second">leap seconds</a>.  Leap seconds are excluded from this total on all
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| POSIX-compliant platforms.</p></li>
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| </ul>
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| <ul class="simple" id="index-2">
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| <li><p>The functions in this module may not handle dates and times before the <a class="reference internal" href="#epoch">epoch</a> or
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| far in the future.  The cut-off point in the future is determined by the C
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| library; for 32-bit systems, it is typically in 2038.</p></li>
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| </ul>
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| <ul class="simple" id="index-3">
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| <li><p>Function <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a> can parse 2-digit years when given <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%y</span></code> format
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| code. When 2-digit years are parsed, they are converted according to the POSIX
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| and ISO C standards: values 69–99 are mapped to 1969–1999, and values 0–68
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| are mapped to 2000–2068.</p></li>
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| </ul>
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| <ul class="simple" id="index-4">
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| <li><p>UTC is <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time">Coordinated Universal Time</a> and superseded <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time">Greenwich Mean Time</a> or
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| GMT as the basis of international timekeeping. The acronym UTC is not a
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| mistake but conforms to an earlier, language-agnostic naming scheme for time
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| standards such as UT0, UT1, and UT2.</p></li>
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| </ul>
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| <ul id="index-5">
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| <li><p>DST is Daylight Saving Time, an adjustment of the timezone by (usually) one
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| hour during part of the year.  DST rules are magic (determined by local law) and
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| can change from year to year.  The C library has a table containing the local
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| rules (often it is read from a system file for flexibility) and is the only
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| source of True Wisdom in this respect.</p></li>
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| <li><p>The precision of the various real-time functions may be less than suggested by
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| the units in which their value or argument is expressed. E.g. on most Unix
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| systems, the clock “ticks” only 50 or 100 times a second.</p></li>
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| <li><p>On the other hand, the precision of <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.sleep" title="time.sleep"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sleep()</span></code></a> is better
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| than their Unix equivalents: times are expressed as floating-point numbers,
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> returns the most accurate time available (using Unix
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| <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gettimeofday()</span></code> where available), and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.sleep" title="time.sleep"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sleep()</span></code></a> will accept a time
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| with a nonzero fraction (Unix <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">select()</span></code> is used to implement this, where
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| available).</p></li>
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| <li><p>The time value as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a>, and
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a>, and accepted by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.asctime" title="time.asctime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asctime()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#time.mktime" title="time.mktime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mktime()</span></code></a> and
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a>, is a sequence of 9 integers.  The return values of
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a>, and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a> also offer attribute
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| names for individual fields.</p>
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| <p>See <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> for a description of these objects.</p>
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| <div class="versionchanged">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>The <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> type was extended to provide
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| the <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time.tm_gmtoff" title="time.struct_time.tm_gmtoff"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_gmtoff</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time.tm_zone" title="time.struct_time.tm_zone"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_zone</span></code></a>
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| attributes when platform supports corresponding
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| <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct</span> <span class="pre">tm</span></code> members.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionchanged">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.6: </span>The <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> attributes
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time.tm_gmtoff" title="time.struct_time.tm_gmtoff"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_gmtoff</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time.tm_zone" title="time.struct_time.tm_zone"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_zone</span></code></a>
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| are now available on all platforms.</p>
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| </div>
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| </li>
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| <li><p>Use the following functions to convert between time representations:</p>
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| <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>From</p></th>
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| <th class="head"><p>To</p></th>
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| <th class="head"><p>Use</p></th>
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| <tr class="row-even"><td><p>seconds since the epoch</p></td>
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| <td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> in
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| UTC</p></td>
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| <td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a></p></td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p>seconds since the epoch</p></td>
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| <td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> in
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| local time</p></td>
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| <td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a></p></td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> in
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| UTC</p></td>
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| <td><p>seconds since the epoch</p></td>
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| <td><p><a class="reference internal" href="calendar.html#calendar.timegm" title="calendar.timegm"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">calendar.timegm()</span></code></a></p></td>
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| </tr>
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| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> in
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| local time</p></td>
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| <td><p>seconds since the epoch</p></td>
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| <td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.mktime" title="time.mktime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mktime()</span></code></a></p></td>
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| </tbody>
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| </table>
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| </li>
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| </ul>
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| <section id="functions">
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| <span id="time-functions"></span><h2>Functions<a class="headerlink" href="#functions" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.asctime">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">asctime</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">t</span></span></em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.asctime" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Convert a tuple or <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> representing a time as returned by
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> to a string of the following
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| form: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Sun</span> <span class="pre">Jun</span> <span class="pre">20</span> <span class="pre">23:21:05</span> <span class="pre">1993'</span></code>. The day field is two characters long
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| and is space padded if the day is a single digit,
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| e.g.: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Wed</span> <span class="pre">Jun</span>  <span class="pre">9</span> <span class="pre">04:26:40</span> <span class="pre">1993'</span></code>.</p>
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| <p>If <em>t</em> is not provided, the current time as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a>
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| is used. Locale information is not used by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.asctime" title="time.asctime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asctime()</span></code></a>.</p>
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| <div class="admonition note">
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| <p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
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| <p>Unlike the C function of the same name, <a class="reference internal" href="#time.asctime" title="time.asctime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asctime()</span></code></a> does not add a
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| trailing newline.</p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.pthread_getcpuclockid">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">pthread_getcpuclockid</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">thread_id</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.pthread_getcpuclockid" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Return the <em>clk_id</em> of the thread-specific CPU-time clock for the specified <em>thread_id</em>.</p>
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| <p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="threading.html#threading.get_ident" title="threading.get_ident"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">threading.get_ident()</span></code></a> or the <a class="reference internal" href="threading.html#threading.Thread.ident" title="threading.Thread.ident"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ident</span></code></a>
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| attribute of <a class="reference internal" href="threading.html#threading.Thread" title="threading.Thread"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">threading.Thread</span></code></a> objects to get a suitable value
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| for <em>thread_id</em>.</p>
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| <div class="admonition warning">
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| <p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
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| <p>Passing an invalid or expired <em>thread_id</em> may result in
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| undefined behavior, such as segmentation fault.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix</p>
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| <p>See the man page for <em class="manpage"><a class="manpage reference external" href="https://manpages.debian.org/pthread_getcpuclockid(3)">pthread_getcpuclockid(3)</a></em> for
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| further information.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.clock_getres">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">clock_getres</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">clk_id</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.clock_getres" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Return the resolution (precision) of the specified clock <em>clk_id</em>.  Refer to
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time-clock-id-constants"><span class="std std-ref">Clock ID Constants</span></a> for a list of accepted values for <em>clk_id</em>.</p>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.clock_gettime">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">clock_gettime</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">clk_id</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><span class="pre">float</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.clock_gettime" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Return the time of the specified clock <em>clk_id</em>.  Refer to
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time-clock-id-constants"><span class="std std-ref">Clock ID Constants</span></a> for a list of accepted values for <em>clk_id</em>.</p>
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| <p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="#time.clock_gettime_ns" title="time.clock_gettime_ns"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_gettime_ns()</span></code></a> to avoid the precision loss caused by the
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| <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a> type.</p>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.clock_gettime_ns">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">clock_gettime_ns</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">clk_id</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#int" title="int"><span class="pre">int</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.clock_gettime_ns" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Similar to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.clock_gettime" title="time.clock_gettime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_gettime()</span></code></a> but return time as nanoseconds.</p>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.clock_settime">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">clock_settime</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">clk_id</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">time</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><span class="pre">float</span></a></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.clock_settime" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Set the time of the specified clock <em>clk_id</em>.  Currently,
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.CLOCK_REALTIME" title="time.CLOCK_REALTIME"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CLOCK_REALTIME</span></code></a> is the only accepted value for <em>clk_id</em>.</p>
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| <p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="#time.clock_settime_ns" title="time.clock_settime_ns"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_settime_ns()</span></code></a> to avoid the precision loss caused by the
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| <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a> type.</p>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix, not Android, not iOS.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.clock_settime_ns">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">clock_settime_ns</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">clk_id</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">time</span></span><span class="p"><span class="pre">:</span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#int" title="int"><span class="pre">int</span></a></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.clock_settime_ns" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Similar to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.clock_settime" title="time.clock_settime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_settime()</span></code></a> but set time with nanoseconds.</p>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix, not Android, not iOS.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.ctime">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ctime</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">secs</span></span></em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.ctime" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Convert a time expressed in seconds since the <a class="reference internal" href="#epoch">epoch</a> to a string of a form:
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| <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Sun</span> <span class="pre">Jun</span> <span class="pre">20</span> <span class="pre">23:21:05</span> <span class="pre">1993'</span></code> representing local time. The day field
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| is two characters long and is space padded if the day is a single digit,
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| e.g.: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Wed</span> <span class="pre">Jun</span>  <span class="pre">9</span> <span class="pre">04:26:40</span> <span class="pre">1993'</span></code>.</p>
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| <p>If <em>secs</em> is not provided or <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>, the current time as
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| returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> is used. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ctime(secs)</span></code> is equivalent to
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| <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asctime(localtime(secs))</span></code>. Locale information is not used by
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.ctime" title="time.ctime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ctime()</span></code></a>.</p>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.get_clock_info">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_clock_info</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">name</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.get_clock_info" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Get information on the specified clock as a namespace object.
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| Supported clock names and the corresponding functions to read their value
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| are:</p>
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| <ul class="simple">
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| <li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'monotonic'</span></code>: <a class="reference internal" href="#time.monotonic" title="time.monotonic"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.monotonic()</span></code></a></p></li>
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| <li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'perf_counter'</span></code>: <a class="reference internal" href="#time.perf_counter" title="time.perf_counter"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.perf_counter()</span></code></a></p></li>
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| <li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'process_time'</span></code>: <a class="reference internal" href="#time.process_time" title="time.process_time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.process_time()</span></code></a></p></li>
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| <li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'thread_time'</span></code>: <a class="reference internal" href="#time.thread_time" title="time.thread_time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.thread_time()</span></code></a></p></li>
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| <li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'time'</span></code>: <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.time()</span></code></a></p></li>
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| </ul>
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| <p>The result has the following attributes:</p>
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| <ul class="simple">
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| <li><p><em>adjustable</em>: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code> if the clock can be changed automatically (e.g. by
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| a NTP daemon) or manually by the system administrator, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code> otherwise</p></li>
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| <li><p><em>implementation</em>: The name of the underlying C function used to get
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| the clock value.  Refer to <a class="reference internal" href="#time-clock-id-constants"><span class="std std-ref">Clock ID Constants</span></a> for possible values.</p></li>
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| <li><p><em>monotonic</em>: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code> if the clock cannot go backward,
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| <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code> otherwise</p></li>
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| <li><p><em>resolution</em>: The resolution of the clock in seconds (<a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a>)</p></li>
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| </ul>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.gmtime">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">gmtime</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">secs</span></span></em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.gmtime" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Convert a time expressed in seconds since the <a class="reference internal" href="#epoch">epoch</a> to a <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> in
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| UTC in which the dst flag is always zero.  If <em>secs</em> is not provided or
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| <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>, the current time as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> is used.  Fractions
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| of a second are ignored.  See above for a description of the
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> object. See <a class="reference internal" href="calendar.html#calendar.timegm" title="calendar.timegm"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">calendar.timegm()</span></code></a> for the inverse of this
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| function.</p>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.localtime">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">localtime</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">secs</span></span></em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.localtime" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Like <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a> but converts to local time.  If <em>secs</em> is not provided or
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| <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>, the current time as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> is used.  The dst
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| flag is set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span></code> when DST applies to the given time.</p>
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> may raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a>, if the timestamp is
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| outside the range of values supported by the platform C <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code>
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| or <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code> functions, and <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OSError" title="OSError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OSError</span></code></a> on <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code> or
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| <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code> failure. It’s common for this to be restricted to years
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| between 1970 and 2038.</p>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.mktime">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">mktime</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">t</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.mktime" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>This is the inverse function of <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a>.  Its argument is the
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> or full 9-tuple (since the dst flag is needed; use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-1</span></code>
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| as the dst flag if it is unknown) which expresses the time in <em>local</em> time, not
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| UTC.  It returns a floating-point number, for compatibility with <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a>.
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| If the input value cannot be represented as a valid time, either
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| <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> will be raised (which depends on
 | ||
| whether the invalid value is caught by Python or the underlying C libraries).
 | ||
| The earliest date for which it can generate a time is platform-dependent.</p>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
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| <dl class="py function">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.monotonic">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">monotonic</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><span class="pre">float</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.monotonic" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Return the value (in fractional seconds) of a monotonic clock, i.e. a clock
 | ||
| that cannot go backwards.  The clock is not affected by system clock updates.
 | ||
| The reference point of the returned value is undefined, so that only the
 | ||
| difference between the results of two calls is valid.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Clock:</p>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li><p>On Windows, call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">QueryPerformanceCounter()</span></code> and
 | ||
| <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">QueryPerformanceFrequency()</span></code>.</p></li>
 | ||
| <li><p>On macOS, call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mach_absolute_time()</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mach_timebase_info()</span></code>.</p></li>
 | ||
| <li><p>On HP-UX, call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gethrtime()</span></code>.</p></li>
 | ||
| <li><p>Call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_gettime(CLOCK_HIGHRES)</span></code> if available.</p></li>
 | ||
| <li><p>Otherwise, call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC)</span></code>.</p></li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="#time.monotonic_ns" title="time.monotonic_ns"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">monotonic_ns()</span></code></a> to avoid the precision loss caused by the
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a> type.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionchanged">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.5: </span>The function is now always available and always system-wide.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionchanged">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.10: </span>On macOS, the function is now system-wide.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
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| <dl class="py function">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.monotonic_ns">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">monotonic_ns</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#int" title="int"><span class="pre">int</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.monotonic_ns" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Similar to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.monotonic" title="time.monotonic"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">monotonic()</span></code></a>, but return time as nanoseconds.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py function">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.perf_counter">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">perf_counter</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><span class="pre">float</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.perf_counter" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p id="index-6">Return the value (in fractional seconds) of a performance counter, i.e. a
 | ||
| clock with the highest available resolution to measure a short duration.  It
 | ||
| does include time elapsed during sleep and is system-wide.  The reference
 | ||
| point of the returned value is undefined, so that only the difference between
 | ||
| the results of two calls is valid.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="impl-detail compound">
 | ||
| <p><strong>CPython implementation detail:</strong> On CPython, use the same clock as <a class="reference internal" href="#time.monotonic" title="time.monotonic"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.monotonic()</span></code></a> and is a
 | ||
| monotonic clock, i.e. a clock that cannot go backwards.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="#time.perf_counter_ns" title="time.perf_counter_ns"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">perf_counter_ns()</span></code></a> to avoid the precision loss caused by the
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a> type.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionchanged">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.10: </span>On Windows, the function is now system-wide.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionchanged">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.13: </span>Use the same clock as <a class="reference internal" href="#time.monotonic" title="time.monotonic"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.monotonic()</span></code></a>.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py function">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.perf_counter_ns">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">perf_counter_ns</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#int" title="int"><span class="pre">int</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.perf_counter_ns" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Similar to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.perf_counter" title="time.perf_counter"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">perf_counter()</span></code></a>, but return time as nanoseconds.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py function">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.process_time">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">process_time</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><span class="pre">float</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.process_time" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p id="index-7">Return the value (in fractional seconds) of the sum of the system and user
 | ||
| CPU time of the current process.  It does not include time elapsed during
 | ||
| sleep.  It is process-wide by definition.  The reference point of the
 | ||
| returned value is undefined, so that only the difference between the results
 | ||
| of two calls is valid.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="#time.process_time_ns" title="time.process_time_ns"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">process_time_ns()</span></code></a> to avoid the precision loss caused by the
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a> type.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py function">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.process_time_ns">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">process_time_ns</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#int" title="int"><span class="pre">int</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.process_time_ns" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Similar to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.process_time" title="time.process_time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">process_time()</span></code></a> but return time as nanoseconds.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py function">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.sleep">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">sleep</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">secs</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.sleep" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Suspend execution of the calling thread for the given number of seconds.
 | ||
| The argument may be a floating-point number to indicate a more precise sleep
 | ||
| time.</p>
 | ||
| <p>If the sleep is interrupted by a signal and no exception is raised by the
 | ||
| signal handler, the sleep is restarted with a recomputed timeout.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The suspension time may be longer than requested by an arbitrary amount,
 | ||
| because of the scheduling of other activity in the system.</p>
 | ||
| <p class="rubric">Windows implementation</p>
 | ||
| <p>On Windows, if <em>secs</em> is zero, the thread relinquishes the remainder of its
 | ||
| time slice to any other thread that is ready to run. If there are no other
 | ||
| threads ready to run, the function returns immediately, and the thread
 | ||
| continues execution.  On Windows 8.1 and newer the implementation uses
 | ||
| a <a class="reference external" href="https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-hardware/drivers/kernel/high-resolution-timers">high-resolution timer</a>
 | ||
| which provides resolution of 100 nanoseconds. If <em>secs</em> is zero, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Sleep(0)</span></code> is used.</p>
 | ||
| <p class="rubric">Unix implementation</p>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li><p>Use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_nanosleep()</span></code> if available (resolution: 1 nanosecond);</p></li>
 | ||
| <li><p>Or use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nanosleep()</span></code> if available (resolution: 1 nanosecond);</p></li>
 | ||
| <li><p>Or use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">select()</span></code> (resolution: 1 microsecond).</p></li>
 | ||
| </ul>
 | ||
| <div class="admonition note">
 | ||
| <p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
 | ||
| <p>To emulate a “no-op”, use <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/simple_stmts.html#pass"><code class="xref std std-keyword docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pass</span></code></a> instead of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.sleep(0)</span></code>.</p>
 | ||
| <p>To voluntarily relinquish the CPU, specify a real-time <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os-scheduling-policy"><span class="std std-ref">scheduling
 | ||
| policy</span></a> and use <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.sched_yield" title="os.sched_yield"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.sched_yield()</span></code></a> instead.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <p class="audit-hook" id="audit_event_time_sleep_0">Raises an <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#auditing"><span class="std std-ref">auditing event</span></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.sleep</span></code> with argument <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">secs</span></code>.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="versionchanged">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.5: </span>The function now sleeps at least <em>secs</em> even if the sleep is interrupted
 | ||
| by a signal, except if the signal handler raises an exception (see
 | ||
| <span class="target" id="index-8"></span><a class="pep reference external" href="https://peps.python.org/pep-0475/"><strong>PEP 475</strong></a> for the rationale).</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionchanged">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.11: </span>On Unix, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_nanosleep()</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nanosleep()</span></code> functions are now
 | ||
| used if available. On Windows, a waitable timer is now used.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionchanged">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.13: </span>Raises an auditing event.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py function" id="index-9">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.strftime">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">strftime</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">format</span></span></em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">t</span></span></em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.strftime" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Convert a tuple or <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> representing a time as returned by
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> to a string as specified by the <em>format</em>
 | ||
| argument.  If <em>t</em> is not provided, the current time as returned by
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> is used.  <em>format</em> must be a string.  <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is
 | ||
| raised if any field in <em>t</em> is outside of the allowed range.</p>
 | ||
| <p>0 is a legal argument for any position in the time tuple; if it is normally
 | ||
| illegal the value is forced to a correct one.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The following directives can be embedded in the <em>format</em> string. They are shown
 | ||
| without the optional field width and precision specification, and are replaced
 | ||
| by the indicated characters in the <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a> result:</p>
 | ||
| <table class="docutils align-default">
 | ||
| <thead>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Directive</p></th>
 | ||
| <th class="head"><p>Meaning</p></th>
 | ||
| <th class="head"><p>Notes</p></th>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| </thead>
 | ||
| <tbody>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%a</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Locale’s abbreviated weekday name.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%A</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Locale’s full weekday name.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%b</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Locale’s abbreviated month name.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%B</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Locale’s full month name.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%c</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Locale’s appropriate date and time
 | ||
| representation.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%d</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Day of the month as a decimal number [01,31].</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%f</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="simple">
 | ||
| <dt>Microseconds as a decimal number</dt><dd><p>[000000,999999].</p>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>(1)</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%H</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number
 | ||
| [00,23].</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%I</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number
 | ||
| [01,12].</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%j</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Day of the year as a decimal number [001,366].</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%m</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Month as a decimal number [01,12].</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%M</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Minute as a decimal number [00,59].</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%p</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Locale’s equivalent of either AM or PM.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>(2)</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%S</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Second as a decimal number [00,61].</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>(3)</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%U</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Week number of the year (Sunday as the first
 | ||
| day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53].
 | ||
| All days in a new year preceding the first
 | ||
| Sunday are considered to be in week 0.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>(4)</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%u</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Day of the week (Monday is 1; Sunday is 7)
 | ||
| as a decimal number [1, 7].</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%w</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Weekday as a decimal number [0(Sunday),6].</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%W</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Week number of the year (Monday as the first
 | ||
| day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53].
 | ||
| All days in a new year preceding the first
 | ||
| Monday are considered to be in week 0.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>(4)</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%x</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Locale’s appropriate date representation.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%X</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Locale’s appropriate time representation.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%y</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Year without century as a decimal number
 | ||
| [00,99].</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Y</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Year with century as a decimal number.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%z</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Time zone offset indicating a positive or
 | ||
| negative time difference from UTC/GMT of the
 | ||
| form +HHMM or -HHMM, where H represents decimal
 | ||
| hour digits and M represents decimal minute
 | ||
| digits [-23:59, +23:59]. <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id4" id="id1" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>1<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Z</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Time zone name (no characters if no time zone
 | ||
| exists). Deprecated. <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id4" id="id2" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>1<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%G</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>ISO 8601 year (similar to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Y</span></code> but follows
 | ||
| the rules for the ISO 8601 calendar year).
 | ||
| The year starts with the week that contains
 | ||
| the first Thursday of the calendar year.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%V</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>ISO 8601 week number (as a decimal number
 | ||
| [01,53]). The first week of the year is the
 | ||
| one that contains the first Thursday of the
 | ||
| year. Weeks start on Monday.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%%</span></code></p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>A literal <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'%'</span></code> character.</p></td>
 | ||
| <td></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| </tbody>
 | ||
| </table>
 | ||
| <p>Notes:</p>
 | ||
| <ol class="arabic simple">
 | ||
| <li><p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%f</span></code> format directive only applies to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a>,
 | ||
| not to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a>. However, see also <a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#datetime.datetime.strptime" title="datetime.datetime.strptime"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.datetime.strptime()</span></code></a> and
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#datetime.datetime.strftime" title="datetime.datetime.strftime"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.datetime.strftime()</span></code></a> where the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%f</span></code> format directive
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#format-codes"><span class="std std-ref">applies to microseconds</span></a>.</p></li>
 | ||
| <li><p>When used with the <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a> function, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%p</span></code> directive only affects
 | ||
| the output hour field if the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%I</span></code> directive is used to parse the hour.</p></li>
 | ||
| </ol>
 | ||
| <ol class="arabic simple" id="leap-second" start="3">
 | ||
| <li><p>The range really is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code> to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">61</span></code>; value <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">60</span></code> is valid in
 | ||
| timestamps representing <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second">leap seconds</a> and value <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">61</span></code> is supported
 | ||
| for historical reasons.</p></li>
 | ||
| <li><p>When used with the <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a> function, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%U</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%W</span></code> are only used in
 | ||
| calculations when the day of the week and the year are specified.</p></li>
 | ||
| </ol>
 | ||
| <p>Here is an example, a format for dates compatible with that specified  in the
 | ||
| <span class="target" id="index-10"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2822.html"><strong>RFC 2822</strong></a> Internet email standard.  <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id4" id="id3" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>1<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p>
 | ||
| <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">time</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">gmtime</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">strftime</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">strftime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="si">%a</span><span class="s2">, </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2"> %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">gmtime</span><span class="p">())</span>
 | ||
| <span class="go">'Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:17:15 +0000'</span>
 | ||
| </pre></div>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <p>Additional directives may be supported on certain platforms, but only the
 | ||
| ones listed here have a meaning standardized by ANSI C.  To see the full set
 | ||
| of format codes supported on your platform, consult the <em class="manpage"><a class="manpage reference external" href="https://manpages.debian.org/strftime(3)">strftime(3)</a></em>
 | ||
| documentation.</p>
 | ||
| <p>On some platforms, an optional field width and precision specification can
 | ||
| immediately follow the initial <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'%'</span></code> of a directive in the following order;
 | ||
| this is also not portable. The field width is normally 2 except for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%j</span></code> where
 | ||
| it is 3.</p>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py function" id="index-11">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.strptime">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">strptime</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">string</span></span></em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">format</span></span></em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.strptime" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Parse a string representing a time according to a format.  The return value
 | ||
| is a <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a> or
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a>.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The <em>format</em> parameter uses the same directives as those used by
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a>; it defaults to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"%a</span> <span class="pre">%b</span> <span class="pre">%d</span> <span class="pre">%H:%M:%S</span> <span class="pre">%Y"</span></code> which matches the
 | ||
| formatting returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.ctime" title="time.ctime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ctime()</span></code></a>. If <em>string</em> cannot be parsed according
 | ||
| to <em>format</em>, or if it has excess data after parsing, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is
 | ||
| raised. The default values used to fill in any missing data when more
 | ||
| accurate values cannot be inferred are <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(1900,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">-1)</span></code>.
 | ||
| Both <em>string</em> and <em>format</em> must be strings.</p>
 | ||
| <p>For example:</p>
 | ||
| <div class="doctest highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">time</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strptime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"30 Nov 00"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2"> %b %y"</span><span class="p">)</span>
 | ||
| <span class="go">time.struct_time(tm_year=2000, tm_mon=11, tm_mday=30, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0,</span>
 | ||
| <span class="go">                 tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=335, tm_isdst=-1)</span>
 | ||
| </pre></div>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <p>Support for the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Z</span></code> directive is based on the values contained in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzname</span></code>
 | ||
| and whether <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">daylight</span></code> is true.  Because of this, it is platform-specific
 | ||
| except for recognizing UTC and GMT which are always known (and are considered to
 | ||
| be non-daylight savings timezones).</p>
 | ||
| <p>Only the directives specified in the documentation are supported.  Because
 | ||
| <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code> is implemented per platform it can sometimes offer more
 | ||
| directives than those listed.  But <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> is independent of any platform
 | ||
| and thus does not necessarily support all directives available that are not
 | ||
| documented as supported.</p>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py class">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time">
 | ||
| <em class="property"><span class="k"><span class="pre">class</span></span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>The type of the time value sequence returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a>,
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a>, and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a>.  It is an object with a <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-named-tuple"><span class="xref std std-term">named
 | ||
| tuple</span></a> interface: values can be accessed by index and by attribute name.  The
 | ||
| following values are present:</p>
 | ||
| <table class="docutils align-default">
 | ||
| <tbody>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Index</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Attribute</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><p>Values</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p>0</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="py attribute">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time.tm_year">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tm_year</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time.tm_year" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd></dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>(for example, 1993)</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p>1</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="py attribute">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time.tm_mon">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tm_mon</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time.tm_mon" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd></dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>range [1, 12]</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p>2</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="py attribute">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time.tm_mday">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tm_mday</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time.tm_mday" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd></dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>range [1, 31]</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p>3</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="py attribute">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time.tm_hour">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tm_hour</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time.tm_hour" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd></dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>range [0, 23]</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p>4</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="py attribute">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time.tm_min">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tm_min</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time.tm_min" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd></dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>range [0, 59]</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p>5</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="py attribute">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time.tm_sec">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tm_sec</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time.tm_sec" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd></dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>range [0, 61]; see <a class="reference internal" href="#leap-second"><span class="std std-ref">Note (2)</span></a> in <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a></p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p>6</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="py attribute">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time.tm_wday">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tm_wday</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time.tm_wday" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd></dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>range [0, 6]; Monday is 0</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p>7</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="py attribute">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time.tm_yday">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tm_yday</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time.tm_yday" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd></dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>range [1, 366]</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p>8</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="py attribute">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time.tm_isdst">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tm_isdst</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time.tm_isdst" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd></dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>0, 1 or -1; see below</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-odd"><td><p>N/A</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="py attribute">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time.tm_zone">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tm_zone</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time.tm_zone" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd></dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>abbreviation of timezone name</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| <tr class="row-even"><td><p>N/A</p></td>
 | ||
| <td><dl class="py attribute">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.struct_time.tm_gmtoff">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tm_gmtoff</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time.tm_gmtoff" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd></dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </td>
 | ||
| <td><p>offset east of UTC in seconds</p></td>
 | ||
| </tr>
 | ||
| </tbody>
 | ||
| </table>
 | ||
| <p>Note that unlike the C structure, the month value is a range of [1, 12], not
 | ||
| [0, 11].</p>
 | ||
| <p>In calls to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.mktime" title="time.mktime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mktime()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time.tm_isdst" title="time.struct_time.tm_isdst"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_isdst</span></code></a> may be set to 1 when daylight
 | ||
| savings time is in effect, and 0 when it is not.  A value of -1 indicates that
 | ||
| this is not known, and will usually result in the correct state being filled in.</p>
 | ||
| <p>When a tuple with an incorrect length is passed to a function expecting a
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a>, or having elements of the wrong type, a
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> is raised.</p>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py function">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.time">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">time</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><span class="pre">float</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.time" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Return the time in seconds since the <a class="reference internal" href="#epoch">epoch</a> as a floating-point
 | ||
| number. The handling of <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second">leap seconds</a> is platform dependent.
 | ||
| On Windows and most Unix systems, the leap seconds are not counted towards
 | ||
| the time in seconds since the <a class="reference internal" href="#epoch">epoch</a>. This is commonly referred to as <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time">Unix
 | ||
| time</a>.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Note that even though the time is always returned as a floating-point
 | ||
| number, not all systems provide time with a better precision than 1 second.
 | ||
| While this function normally returns non-decreasing values, it can return a
 | ||
| lower value than a previous call if the system clock has been set back
 | ||
| between the two calls.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The number returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> may be converted into a more common
 | ||
| time format (i.e. year, month, day, hour, etc…) in UTC by passing it to
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a> function or in local time by passing it to the
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> function. In both cases a
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> object is returned, from which the components
 | ||
| of the calendar date may be accessed as attributes.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Clock:</p>
 | ||
| <ul class="simple">
 | ||
| <li><p>On Windows, call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">GetSystemTimeAsFileTime()</span></code>.</p></li>
 | ||
| <li><p>Call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME)</span></code> if available.</p></li>
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| <li><p>Otherwise, call <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gettimeofday()</span></code>.</p></li>
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| </ul>
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| <p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time_ns" title="time.time_ns"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time_ns()</span></code></a> to avoid the precision loss caused by the <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a>
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| type.</p>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.time_ns">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">time_ns</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#int" title="int"><span class="pre">int</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.time_ns" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Similar to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> but returns time as an integer number of
 | ||
| nanoseconds since the <a class="reference internal" href="#epoch">epoch</a>.</p>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.thread_time">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">thread_time</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><span class="pre">float</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.thread_time" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p id="index-12">Return the value (in fractional seconds) of the sum of the system and user
 | ||
| CPU time of the current thread.  It does not include time elapsed during
 | ||
| sleep.  It is thread-specific by definition.  The reference point of the
 | ||
| returned value is undefined, so that only the difference between the results
 | ||
| of two calls in the same thread is valid.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="#time.thread_time_ns" title="time.thread_time_ns"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">thread_time_ns()</span></code></a> to avoid the precision loss caused by the
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a> type.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="availability docutils container">
 | ||
| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Linux, Unix, Windows.</p>
 | ||
| <p>Unix systems supporting <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID</span></code>.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py function">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.thread_time_ns">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">thread_time_ns</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> <span class="sig-return"><span class="sig-return-icon">→</span> <span class="sig-return-typehint"><a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#int" title="int"><span class="pre">int</span></a></span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.thread_time_ns" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Similar to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.thread_time" title="time.thread_time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">thread_time()</span></code></a> but return time as nanoseconds.</p>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py function">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.tzset">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tzset</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.tzset" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Reset the time conversion rules used by the library routines. The environment
 | ||
| variable <span class="target" id="index-13"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> specifies how this is done. It will also set the variables
 | ||
| <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzname</span></code> (from the <span class="target" id="index-14"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> environment variable), <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code> (non-DST
 | ||
| seconds West of UTC), <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">altzone</span></code> (DST seconds west of UTC) and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">daylight</span></code>
 | ||
| (to 0 if this timezone does not have any daylight saving time rules, or to
 | ||
| nonzero if there is a time, past, present or future when daylight saving time
 | ||
| applies).</p>
 | ||
| <div class="availability docutils container">
 | ||
| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="admonition note">
 | ||
| <p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
 | ||
| <p>Although in many cases, changing the <span class="target" id="index-15"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> environment variable may
 | ||
| affect the output of functions like <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> without calling
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.tzset" title="time.tzset"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzset()</span></code></a>, this behavior should not be relied on.</p>
 | ||
| <p>The <span class="target" id="index-16"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> environment variable should contain no whitespace.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <p>The standard format of the <span class="target" id="index-17"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> environment variable is (whitespace
 | ||
| added for clarity):</p>
 | ||
| <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">std</span> <span class="n">offset</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">dst</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">offset</span> <span class="p">[,</span><span class="n">start</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">end</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">]]]]</span>
 | ||
| </pre></div>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <p>Where the components are:</p>
 | ||
| <dl>
 | ||
| <dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">std</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst</span></code></dt><dd><p>Three or more alphanumerics giving the timezone abbreviations. These will be
 | ||
| propagated into time.tzname</p>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| <dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">offset</span></code></dt><dd><p>The offset has the form: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">±</span> <span class="pre">hh[:mm[:ss]]</span></code>. This indicates the value
 | ||
| added the local time to arrive at UTC.  If preceded by a ‘-’, the timezone
 | ||
| is east of the Prime Meridian; otherwise, it is west. If no offset follows
 | ||
| dst, summer time is assumed to be one hour ahead of standard time.</p>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| <dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">start[/time],</span> <span class="pre">end[/time]</span></code></dt><dd><p>Indicates when to change to and back from DST. The format of the
 | ||
| start and end dates are one of the following:</p>
 | ||
| <dl class="simple">
 | ||
| <dt><code class="samp docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">J</span><em><span class="pre">n</span></em></code></dt><dd><p>The Julian day <em>n</em> (1 <= <em>n</em> <= 365). Leap days are not counted, so in
 | ||
| all years February 28 is day 59 and March 1 is day 60.</p>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| <dt><code class="samp docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">n</span></em></code></dt><dd><p>The zero-based Julian day (0 <= <em>n</em> <= 365). Leap days are counted, and
 | ||
| it is possible to refer to February 29.</p>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| <dt><code class="samp docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">M</span><em><span class="pre">m</span></em><span class="pre">.</span><em><span class="pre">n</span></em><span class="pre">.</span><em><span class="pre">d</span></em></code></dt><dd><p>The <em>d</em>’th day (0 <= <em>d</em> <= 6) of week <em>n</em> of month <em>m</em> of the year (1
 | ||
| <= <em>n</em> <= 5, 1 <= <em>m</em> <= 12, where week 5 means “the last <em>d</em> day in
 | ||
| month <em>m</em>” which may occur in either the fourth or the fifth
 | ||
| week). Week 1 is the first week in which the <em>d</em>’th day occurs. Day
 | ||
| zero is a Sunday.</p>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| <p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code> has the same format as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">offset</span></code> except that no leading sign
 | ||
| (‘-’ or ‘+’) is allowed. The default, if time is not given, is 02:00:00.</p>
 | ||
| </dd>
 | ||
| </dl>
 | ||
| <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'TZ'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'EST+05EDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0'</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzset</span><span class="p">()</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strftime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'</span><span class="si">%X</span><span class="s1"> </span><span class="si">%x</span><span class="s1"> %Z'</span><span class="p">)</span>
 | ||
| <span class="go">'02:07:36 05/08/03 EDT'</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'TZ'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'AEST-10AEDT-11,M10.5.0,M3.5.0'</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzset</span><span class="p">()</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strftime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'</span><span class="si">%X</span><span class="s1"> </span><span class="si">%x</span><span class="s1"> %Z'</span><span class="p">)</span>
 | ||
| <span class="go">'16:08:12 05/08/03 AEST'</span>
 | ||
| </pre></div>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <p>On many Unix systems (including *BSD, Linux, Solaris, and Darwin), it is more
 | ||
| convenient to use the system’s zoneinfo (<em class="manpage"><a class="manpage reference external" href="https://manpages.debian.org/tzfile(5)">tzfile(5)</a></em>)  database to
 | ||
| specify the timezone rules. To do this, set the  <span class="target" id="index-18"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> environment
 | ||
| variable to the path of the required timezone  datafile, relative to the root of
 | ||
| the systems ‘zoneinfo’ timezone database, usually located at
 | ||
| <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/usr/share/zoneinfo</span></code>. For example,  <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'US/Eastern'</span></code>,
 | ||
| <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Australia/Melbourne'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Egypt'</span></code> or  <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Europe/Amsterdam'</span></code>.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'TZ'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'US/Eastern'</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzset</span><span class="p">()</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzname</span>
 | ||
| <span class="go">('EST', 'EDT')</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'TZ'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'Egypt'</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzset</span><span class="p">()</span>
 | ||
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzname</span>
 | ||
| <span class="go">('EET', 'EEST')</span>
 | ||
| </pre></div>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| </section>
 | ||
| <section id="clock-id-constants">
 | ||
| <span id="time-clock-id-constants"></span><h2>Clock ID Constants<a class="headerlink" href="#clock-id-constants" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
 | ||
| <p>These constants are used as parameters for <a class="reference internal" href="#time.clock_getres" title="time.clock_getres"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_getres()</span></code></a> and
 | ||
| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.clock_gettime" title="time.clock_gettime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_gettime()</span></code></a>.</p>
 | ||
| <dl class="py data">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_BOOTTIME">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_BOOTTIME</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_BOOTTIME" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Identical to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC" title="time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CLOCK_MONOTONIC</span></code></a>, except it also includes any time that
 | ||
| the system is suspended.</p>
 | ||
| <p>This allows applications to get a suspend-aware monotonic  clock  without
 | ||
| having to deal with the complications of <a class="reference internal" href="#time.CLOCK_REALTIME" title="time.CLOCK_REALTIME"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CLOCK_REALTIME</span></code></a>, which may
 | ||
| have  discontinuities if the time is changed using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">settimeofday()</span></code> or
 | ||
| similar.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="availability docutils container">
 | ||
| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Linux >= 2.6.39.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py data">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_HIGHRES">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_HIGHRES</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_HIGHRES" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>The Solaris OS has a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CLOCK_HIGHRES</span></code> timer that attempts to use an optimal
 | ||
| hardware source, and may give close to nanosecond resolution.
 | ||
| <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CLOCK_HIGHRES</span></code> is the nonadjustable, high-resolution clock.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="availability docutils container">
 | ||
| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Solaris.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py data">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_MONOTONIC</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Clock that cannot be set and represents monotonic time since some unspecified
 | ||
| starting point.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="availability docutils container">
 | ||
| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py data">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Similar to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC" title="time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CLOCK_MONOTONIC</span></code></a>, but provides access to a raw
 | ||
| hardware-based time that is not subject to NTP adjustments.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="availability docutils container">
 | ||
| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Linux >= 2.6.28, macOS >= 10.12.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py data">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW_APPROX">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW_APPROX</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW_APPROX" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>Similar to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW" title="time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW</span></code></a>, but reads a value cached by
 | ||
| the system at context switch and hence has less accuracy.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="availability docutils container">
 | ||
| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: macOS >= 10.12.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.13.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py data">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>High-resolution per-process timer from the CPU.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="availability docutils container">
 | ||
| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
 | ||
| <dl class="py data">
 | ||
| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_PROF">
 | ||
| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_PROF</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_PROF" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | ||
| <dd><p>High-resolution per-process timer from the CPU.</p>
 | ||
| <div class="availability docutils container">
 | ||
| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: FreeBSD, NetBSD >= 7, OpenBSD.</p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| <div class="versionadded">
 | ||
| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
 | ||
| </div>
 | ||
| </dd></dl>
 | ||
| 
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_TAI">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_TAI</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_TAI" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p><a class="reference external" href="https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/nist-time-frequently-asked-questions-faq#tai">International Atomic Time</a></p>
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| <p>The system must have a current leap second table in order for this to give
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| the correct answer.  PTP or NTP software can maintain a leap second table.</p>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Linux.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.9.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py data">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Thread-specific CPU-time clock.</p>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py data">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_UPTIME">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_UPTIME</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_UPTIME" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Time whose absolute value is the time the system has been running and not
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| suspended, providing accurate uptime measurement, both absolute and
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| interval.</p>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: FreeBSD, OpenBSD >= 5.5.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.7.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py data">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Clock that increments monotonically, tracking the time since an arbitrary
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| point, unaffected by frequency or time adjustments and not incremented while
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| the system is asleep.</p>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: macOS >= 10.12.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.8.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py data">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW_APPROX">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW_APPROX</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW_APPROX" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Like <a class="reference internal" href="#time.CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW" title="time.CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW</span></code></a>, but the value is cached by the system
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| at context switches and therefore has less accuracy.</p>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: macOS >= 10.12.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.13.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <p>The following constant is the only parameter that can be sent to
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.clock_settime" title="time.clock_settime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clock_settime()</span></code></a>.</p>
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| <dl class="py data">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.CLOCK_REALTIME">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CLOCK_REALTIME</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.CLOCK_REALTIME" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>System-wide real-time clock.  Setting this clock requires appropriate
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| privileges.</p>
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| <div class="availability docutils container">
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| <p><a class="reference internal" href="intro.html#availability"><span class="std std-ref">Availability</span></a>: Unix.</p>
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| </div>
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| <div class="versionadded">
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| <p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.3.</span></p>
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| </div>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| </section>
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| <section id="timezone-constants">
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| <span id="time-timezone-constants"></span><h2>Timezone Constants<a class="headerlink" href="#timezone-constants" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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| <dl class="py data">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.altzone">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">altzone</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.altzone" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>The offset of the local DST timezone, in seconds west of UTC, if one is defined.
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| This is negative if the local DST timezone is east of UTC (as in Western Europe,
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| including the UK).  Only use this if <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">daylight</span></code> is nonzero.  See note below.</p>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py data">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.daylight">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">daylight</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.daylight" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>Nonzero if a DST timezone is defined.  See note below.</p>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py data">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.timezone">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">timezone</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.timezone" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>The offset of the local (non-DST) timezone, in seconds west of UTC (negative in
 | ||
| most of Western Europe, positive in the US, zero in the UK).  See note below.</p>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <dl class="py data">
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| <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="time.tzname">
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| <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">time.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">tzname</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.tzname" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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| <dd><p>A tuple of two strings: the first is the name of the local non-DST timezone, the
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| second is the name of the local DST timezone.  If no DST timezone is defined,
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| the second string should not be used.  See note below.</p>
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| </dd></dl>
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| 
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| <div class="admonition note">
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| <p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
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| <p>For the above Timezone constants (<a class="reference internal" href="#time.altzone" title="time.altzone"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">altzone</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#time.daylight" title="time.daylight"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">daylight</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#time.timezone" title="time.timezone"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a>,
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| and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.tzname" title="time.tzname"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzname</span></code></a>), the value is determined by the timezone rules in effect
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| at module load time or the last time <a class="reference internal" href="#time.tzset" title="time.tzset"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzset()</span></code></a> is called and may be incorrect
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| for times in the past.  It is recommended to use the <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time.tm_gmtoff" title="time.struct_time.tm_gmtoff"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_gmtoff</span></code></a> and
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| <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time.tm_zone" title="time.struct_time.tm_zone"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_zone</span></code></a> results from <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> to obtain timezone information.</p>
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| <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>More object-oriented interface to dates and times.</p>
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| of many format specifiers in <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a>.</p>
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| inverse of <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a> from this module.</p>
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