Time
The time module can be imported with the statement import time.
The time module is used to sleep for seconds or milliseconds, and to know current time, timezone and system’s epoch.
Constants
time.timezone: the timezone (number of seconds to add to GMT)
Functions
time.sleep
Syntax: time.sleep(seconds)
Pauses the program for seconds (int or float) and do nothing. Returns None.
time.sleep_milliseconds
Syntax: time.sleep_milliseconds(milliseconds)
Pauses the program for milliseconds (integer) and do nothing. Returns None.
time.time
Syntax: time.time()
Returns the float value of the time in seconds since the Epoch (system-dependent, check your epoch with time.epoch()).
time.epoch
Syntax: time.epoch()
Returns the str value of the Epoch of your system.