Metric Time Converter

def timesec():
    """This function converts the current time into seconds since start of day"""

    # import the function to get time as tuple
    from time import localtime
    currtime = localtime()

    # convert current time into seconds
    sec = (currtime[3] * 3600) + (currtime[4] * 60) + currtime[5]

    return sec

def metrictime(sec):
    """This function converts seconds since start of day into metric time as tuple in format ks:sec"""

    # Converts time to kiloseconds and seconds
    time = ((sec / 1000), (sec % 1000))
    return time

# Calling the functions
time = metrictime(timesec())
print time[0], ":", time[1], "ks"