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:mod:`time` -- time related functions
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.. module:: time
:synopsis: time related functions
The ``time`` module provides functions for getting the current time and date,
and for sleeping.
Functions
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.. function:: localtime([secs])
Convert a time expressed in seconds since Jan 1, 2000 into an 8-tuple which
contains: (year, month, mday, hour, minute, second, weekday, yearday)
If secs is not provided or None, then the current time from the RTC is used.
year includes the century (for example 2014).
* month is 1-12
* mday is 1-31
* hour is 0-23
* minute is 0-59
* second is 0-59
* weekday is 0-6 for Mon-Sun
* yearday is 1-366
.. function:: mktime()
This is inverse function of localtime. It's argument is a full 8-tuple
which expresses a time as per localtime. It returns an integer which is
the number of seconds since Jan 1, 2000.
.. function:: sleep(seconds)
Sleep for the given number of seconds. Seconds can be a floating-point number to
sleep for a fractional number of seconds.
.. function:: time()
Returns the number of seconds, as an integer, since 1/1/2000.