time tuple
Get to know time tuple
The time module contains functions for getting the current time,
manipulating times and dates, and
reading dates from strings and formatting dates as strings.
Dates can be represented as either a real number which is the seconds since 1970, or a tuple containing nine integers.
The following table has detailed information for date tuples.
(2002, 1, 21, 12, 2, 56, 0, 21, 0)
represents January 21, 2002, at 12:02:56.
The Fields of Python Date Tuples
| Index | Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Year | For example, 2000, 2001, and so on |
| 1 | Month | In the range 1-12 |
| 2 | Day | In the range 1-31 |
| 3 | Hour | In the range 0-23 |
| 4 | Minute | In the range 0-59 |
| 5 | Second | In the range 0-61 |
| 6 | Weekday | In the range 0-6, where Monday is 0 |
| 7 | Julian day | In the range 1-366 |
| 8 | Daylight Savings | 0, 1, or -1 |
The range for seconds is 0-61. 61 is for leap seconds and double leap seconds. The Daylight Savings number is a Boolean value (true or false ).
Define your own class to store time and date
import time# w ww . j a v a 2s . c o m
class now:
def __init__(self):
self.t = time.time()
self.storetime()
def storetime(self):
self.year, \
self.month, \
self.day, \
self.hour, \
self.minute, \
self.second, \
self.dow, \
self.doy, \
self.dst = time.localtime(self.t)
n = now()
print "The year is", n.year
print n
The code above generates the following result.
