Python time Module

Python time Module

• In this topic, we will explore time module in detail. We will learn to use different time-related functions defined in the time module with the help of examples.
• Python has a module named time to handle time-related tasks. To use functions defined in the module, we need to import the module first. 
• Python has a module datetime to work with dates and times.

• import time

Get Current Date and Time

• Datetime class is definned inside the datetime module. 

Source Code:

import datetime

dt = datetime.datetime.now()

print(dt)

Get Current Date

• We use today() method defined in the date class to get date object which contains current local date. 

Source Code:

import datetime

dt = datetime.date.today()

print(dt) 

Get Date from Timestamp

• We posted time module in python before three days where we got timestamp. And when we paste that timestamp here, we got that date.

Source Code:

from datetime import date

timestamp = date.formtimestamp(1586941435)

print("Date=",timestamp) 

What is inside in the datetime module?

• We will use the dir() function to get the list of all attributes.

Source Code:

import datetime

print(dir(datetime))