:mod:`time` -- time related functions ===================================== .. module:: time :synopsis: time related functions The ``time`` module provides functions for getting the current time and date, and for sleeping. Functions --------- .. 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. .. only:: port_pyboard .. 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. .. only:: port_esp8266 or port_wipy .. function:: sleep(seconds) Sleep for the given number of seconds. .. function:: time() Returns the number of seconds, as an integer, since 1/1/2000.