Time time() Method



Description

The method time() returns the time as a floating point number expressed in seconds since the epoch, in UTC.

Note − 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.

Syntax

Following is the syntax for time() method −

time.time()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

This method returns the time as a floating point number expressed in seconds since the epoch, in UTC.

Example

The following example shows the usage of time() method.

import time
print ("time.time(): %f " % time.time())
print (time.localtime( time.time() ))
print (time.asctime( time.localtime(time.time()) ))

When we run the above program, it produces the following result −

time.time(): 1681930077.653530
time.struct_time(tm_year=2023, tm_mon=4, tm_mday=20, tm_hour=0, tm_min=17, tm_sec=57, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=110, tm_isdst=0)
Thu Apr 20 00:17:57 2023
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