time

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NAME
    time - This module provides various functions to manipulate time values.

FILE
    (built-in)

DESCRIPTION
    There are two standard representations of time.  One is the number
    of seconds since the Epoch, in UTC (a.k.a. GMT).  It may be an integer
    or a floating point number (to represent fractions of seconds).
    The Epoch is system-defined; on Unix, it is generally January 1st, 1970.
    The actual value can be retrieved by calling gmtime(0).

    The other representation is a tuple of 9 integers giving local time.
    The tuple items are:
      year (four digits, e.g. 1998)
      month (1-12)
      day (1-31)
      hours (0-23)
      minutes (0-59)
      seconds (0-59)
      weekday (0-6, Monday is 0)
      Julian day (day in the year, 1-366)
      DST (Daylight Savings Time) flag (-1, 0 or 1)
    If the DST flag is 0, the time is given in the regular time zone;
    if it is 1, the time is given in the DST time zone;
    if it is -1, mktime() should guess based on the date and time.

    Variables:

    timezone -- difference in seconds between UTC and local standard time
    altzone -- difference in  seconds between UTC and local DST time
    daylight -- whether local time should reflect DST
    tzname -- tuple of (standard time zone name, DST time zone name)

    Functions:

    time() -- return current time in seconds since the Epoch as a float
    clock() -- return CPU time since process start as a float
    sleep() -- delay for a number of seconds given as a float
    gmtime() -- convert seconds since Epoch to UTC tuple
    localtime() -- convert seconds since Epoch to local time tuple
    asctime() -- convert time tuple to string
    ctime() -- convert time in seconds to string
    mktime() -- convert local time tuple to seconds since Epoch
    strftime() -- convert time tuple to string according to format specification
    strptime() -- parse string to time tuple according to format specification
    tzset() -- change the local timezone

CLASSES
    __builtin__.object
        struct_time

    class struct_time(__builtin__.object)
     |  The time value as returned by gmtime(), localtime(), and strptime(), and
     |  accepted by asctime(), mktime() and strftime().  May be considered as a
     |  sequence of 9 integers.
     |
     |  Note that several fields' values are not the same as those defined by
     |  the C language standard for struct tm.  For example, the value of the
     |  field tm_year is the actual year, not year - 1900.  See individual
     |  fields' descriptions for details.
     |
     |  Methods defined here:
     |
     |  __add__(...)
     |      x.__add__(y) <==> x+y
     |
     |  __contains__(...)
     |      x.__contains__(y) <==> y in x
     |
     |  __eq__(...)
     |      x.__eq__(y) <==> x==y
     |
     |  __ge__(...)
     |      x.__ge__(y) <==> x>=y
     |
     |  __getitem__(...)
     |      x.__getitem__(y) <==> x[y]
     |
     |  __getslice__(...)
     |      x.__getslice__(i, j) <==> x[i:j]
     |
     |      Use of negative indices is not supported.
     |
     |  __gt__(...)
     |      x.__gt__(y) <==> x>y
     |
     |  __hash__(...)
     |      x.__hash__() <==> hash(x)
     |
     |  __le__(...)
     |      x.__le__(y) <==> x<=y
     |
     |  __len__(...)
     |      x.__len__() <==> len(x)
     |
     |  __lt__(...)
     |      x.__lt__(y) <==> x<y
     |
     |  __mul__(...)
     |      x.__mul__(n) <==> x*n
     |
     |  __ne__(...)
     |      x.__ne__(y) <==> x!=y
     |
     |  __reduce__(...)
     |
     |  __repr__(...)
     |      x.__repr__() <==> repr(x)
     |
     |  __rmul__(...)
     |      x.__rmul__(n) <==> n*x
     |
     |  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
     |  Data descriptors defined here:
     |
     |  tm_hour
     |      hours, range [0, 23]
     |
     |  tm_isdst
     |      1 if summer time is in effect, 0 if not, and -1 if unknown
     |
     |  tm_mday
     |      day of month, range [1, 31]
     |
     |  tm_min
     |      minutes, range [0, 59]
     |
     |  tm_mon
     |      month of year, range [1, 12]
     |
     |  tm_sec
     |      seconds, range [0, 61])
     |
     |  tm_wday
     |      day of week, range [0, 6], Monday is 0
     |
     |  tm_yday
     |      day of year, range [1, 366]
     |
     |  tm_year
     |      year, for example, 1993
     |
     |  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
     |  Data and other attributes defined here:
     |
     |  __new__ = <built-in method __new__ of type object>
     |      T.__new__(S, ...) -> a new object with type S, a subtype of T
     |
     |  n_fields = 9
     |
     |  n_sequence_fields = 9
     |
     |  n_unnamed_fields = 0

FUNCTIONS
    asctime(...)
        asctime([tuple]) -> string

        Convert a time tuple to a string, e.g. 'Sat Jun 06 16:26:11 1998'.
        When the time tuple is not present, current time as returned by localtime()
        is used.

    clock(...)
        clock() -> floating point number

        Return the CPU time or real time since the start of the process or since
        the first call to clock().  This has as much precision as the system
        records.

    ctime(...)
        ctime(seconds) -> string

        Convert a time in seconds since the Epoch to a string in local time.
        This is equivalent to asctime(localtime(seconds)). When the time tuple is
        not present, current time as returned by localtime() is used.

    gmtime(...)
        gmtime([seconds]) -> (tm_year, tm_mon, tm_mday, tm_hour, tm_min,
                               tm_sec, tm_wday, tm_yday, tm_isdst)

        Convert seconds since the Epoch to a time tuple expressing UTC (a.k.a.
        GMT).  When 'seconds' is not passed in, convert the current time instead.

    localtime(...)
        localtime([seconds]) -> (tm_year,tm_mon,tm_mday,tm_hour,tm_min,
                                  tm_sec,tm_wday,tm_yday,tm_isdst)

        Convert seconds since the Epoch to a time tuple expressing local time.
        When 'seconds' is not passed in, convert the current time instead.

    mktime(...)
        mktime(tuple) -> floating point number

        Convert a time tuple in local time to seconds since the Epoch.

    sleep(...)
        sleep(seconds)

        Delay execution for a given number of seconds.  The argument may be
        a floating point number for subsecond precision.

    strftime(...)
        strftime(format[, tuple]) -> string

        Convert a time tuple to a string according to a format specification.
        See the library reference manual for formatting codes. When the time tuple
        is not present, current time as returned by localtime() is used.

    strptime(...)
        strptime(string, format) -> struct_time

        Parse a string to a time tuple according to a format specification.
        See the library reference manual for formatting codes (same as strftime()).

    time(...)
        time() -> floating point number

        Return the current time in seconds since the Epoch.
        Fractions of a second may be present if the system clock provides them.

DATA
    accept2dyear = 1
    altzone = -16200
    daylight = 1
    timezone = -12600
    tzname = ('Iran Standard Time', 'Iran Daylight Time')