16.3. time — 时间的访问和转换 ¶

16.3.1. 函数 ¶

time. asctime ( [ t ] ) ¶

Convert a tuple or struct_time representing a time as returned by gmtime() or localtime() to a string of the following form: 'Sun Jun 20 23:21:05 1993' 。若 t is not provided, the current time as returned by localtime() is used. Locale information is not used by asctime() .

注意

Unlike the C function of the same name, asctime() does not add a trailing newline.

time. clock ( ) ¶

On Unix, return the current processor time as a floating point number expressed in seconds. The precision, and in fact the very definition of the meaning of “processor time”, depends on that of the C function of the same name.

On Windows, this function returns wall-clock seconds elapsed since the first call to this function, as a floating point number, based on the Win32 function QueryPerformanceCounter() . The resolution is typically better than one microsecond.

从 3.3 版起弃用： The behaviour of this function depends on the platform: use perf_counter() or process_time() instead, depending on your requirements, to have a well defined behaviour.

time. clock_getres ( clk_id ) ¶

Return the resolution (precision) of the specified clock clk_id 。参考 Clock ID Constants for a list of accepted values for clk_id .

可用性：Unix。

3.3 版新增。

time. clock_gettime ( clk_id ) ¶

Return the time of the specified clock clk_id 。参考 Clock ID Constants for a list of accepted values for clk_id .

可用性：Unix。

3.3 版新增。

time. clock_settime ( clk_id , time ) ¶

Set the time of the specified clock clk_id . Currently, CLOCK_REALTIME is the only accepted value for clk_id .

可用性：Unix。

3.3 版新增。

time. ctime ( [ secs ] ) ¶

Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a string representing local time. If secs is not provided or None , the current time as returned by time() 被使用。 ctime(secs) 相当于 asctime(localtime(secs)) . Locale information is not used by ctime() .

time. get_clock_info ( name ) ¶

Get information on the specified clock as a namespace object. Supported clock names and the corresponding functions to read their value are:

• 'clock' : time.clock()
• 'monotonic' : time.monotonic()
• 'perf_counter' : time.perf_counter()
• 'process_time' : time.process_time()
• 'time' : time.time()

结果拥有下列属性：

• adjustable : True if the clock can be changed automatically (e.g. by a NTP daemon) or manually by the system administrator, False otherwise
• 实现 : The name of the underlying C function used to get the clock value. Refer to Clock ID Constants 了解可能值。
• monotonic : True if the clock cannot go backward, False otherwise
• resolution : The resolution of the clock in seconds ( float )

3.3 版新增。

time. gmtime ( [ secs ] ) ¶

Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a struct_time in UTC in which the dst flag is always zero. If secs is not provided or None , the current time as returned by time() is used. Fractions of a second are ignored. See above for a description of the struct_time 对象。见 calendar.timegm() for the inverse of this function.

time. localtime ( [ secs ] ) ¶

像 gmtime() but converts to local time. If secs is not provided or None , the current time as returned by time() is used. The dst flag is set to 1 when DST applies to the given time.

time. mktime ( t ) ¶

这是反函数对于 localtime() . Its argument is the struct_time or full 9-tuple (since the dst flag is needed; use -1 as the dst flag if it is unknown) which expresses the time in local time, not UTC. It returns a floating point number, for compatibility with time() . If the input value cannot be represented as a valid time, either OverflowError or ValueError will be raised (which depends on whether the invalid value is caught by Python or the underlying C libraries). The earliest date for which it can generate a time is platform-dependent.

time. monotonic ( ) ¶

Return the value (in fractional seconds) of a monotonic clock, i.e. a clock that cannot go backwards. The clock is not affected by system clock updates. The reference point of the returned value is undefined, so that only the difference between the results of consecutive calls is valid.

On Windows versions older than Vista, monotonic() detects GetTickCount() integer overflow (32 bits, roll-over after 49.7 days). It increases an internal epoch (reference time) by 2 ³² each time that an overflow is detected. The epoch is stored in the process-local state and so the value of monotonic() may be different in two Python processes running for more than 49 days. On more recent versions of Windows and on other operating systems, monotonic() is system-wide.

3.3 版新增。

3.5 版改变： The function is now always available.

time. perf_counter ( ) ¶

Return the value (in fractional seconds) of a performance counter, i.e. a clock with the highest available resolution to measure a short duration. It does include time elapsed during sleep and is system-wide. The reference point of the returned value is undefined, so that only the difference between the results of consecutive calls is valid.

3.3 版新增。

time. process_time ( ) ¶

Return the value (in fractional seconds) of the sum of the system and user CPU time of the current process. It does not include time elapsed during sleep. It is process-wide by definition. The reference point of the returned value is undefined, so that only the difference between the results of consecutive calls is valid.

3.3 版新增。

time. sleep ( secs ) ¶

Suspend execution of the calling thread for the given number of seconds. The argument may be a floating point number to indicate a more precise sleep time. The actual suspension time may be less than that requested because any caught signal will terminate the sleep() following execution of that signal’s catching routine. Also, the suspension time may be longer than requested by an arbitrary amount because of the scheduling of other activity in the system.

3.5 版改变： The function now sleeps at least secs even if the sleep is interrupted by a signal, except if the signal handler raises an exception (see PEP 475 了解基本原理)。

time. strftime ( format [ , t ] ) ¶

Convert a tuple or struct_time representing a time as returned by gmtime() or localtime() to a string as specified by the format argument. If t is not provided, the current time as returned by localtime() 被使用。 format must be a string. ValueError is raised if any field in t is outside of the allowed range.

0 is a legal argument for any position in the time tuple; if it is normally illegal the value is forced to a correct one.

The following directives can be embedded in the format string. They are shown without the optional field width and precision specification, and are replaced by the indicated characters in the strftime() result:

指令	含义	注意事项
%a	Locale’s abbreviated weekday name.
%A	Locale’s full weekday name.
%b	Locale’s abbreviated month name.
%B	Locale’s full month name.
%c	Locale’s appropriate date and time representation.
%d	Day of the month as a decimal number [01,31].
%H	Hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number [00,23].
%I	Hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number [01,12].
%j	Day of the year as a decimal number [001,366].
%m	Month as a decimal number [01,12].
%M	Minute as a decimal number [00,59].
%p	Locale’s equivalent of either AM or PM.	(1)
%S	Second as a decimal number [00,61].	(2)
%U	Week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53]. All days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are considered to be in week 0.	(3)
%w	Weekday as a decimal number [0(Sunday),6].
%W	Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53]. All days in a new year preceding the first Monday are considered to be in week 0.	(3)
%x	Locale’s appropriate date representation.
%X	Locale’s appropriate time representation.
%y	Year without century as a decimal number [00,99].
%Y	Year with century as a decimal number.
%z	Time zone offset indicating a positive or negative time difference from UTC/GMT of the form +HHMM or -HHMM, where H represents decimal hour digits and M represents decimal minute digits [-23:59, +23:59].
%Z	Time zone name (no characters if no time zone exists).
%%	A literal '%' character.

注意事项：

1. When used with the strptime() function, the %p directive only affects the output hour field if the %I directive is used to parse the hour.
2. The range really is 0 to 61 ; value 60 is valid in timestamps representing leap seconds and value 61 is supported for historical reasons.
3. When used with the strptime() function, %U and %W are only used in calculations when the day of the week and the year are specified.

Here is an example, a format for dates compatible with that specified in the RFC 2822 Internet email standard. [1]

>>> from time import gmtime, strftime
>>> strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", gmtime())
'Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:17:15 +0000'
										

Additional directives may be supported on certain platforms, but only the ones listed here have a meaning standardized by ANSI C. To see the full set of format codes supported on your platform, consult the strftime(3) 文档编制。

On some platforms, an optional field width and precision specification can immediately follow the initial '%' of a directive in the following order; this is also not portable. The field width is normally 2 except for %j where it is 3.

time. strptime ( string [ , format ] ) ¶

Parse a string representing a time according to a format. The return value is a struct_time as returned by gmtime() or localtime() .

format parameter uses the same directives as those used by strftime() ; it defaults to "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y" which matches the formatting returned by ctime() 。若 string cannot be parsed according to format , or if it has excess data after parsing, ValueError is raised. The default values used to fill in any missing data when more accurate values cannot be inferred are (1900, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -1) . Both string and format must be strings.

例如：

>>> import time
>>> time.strptime("30 Nov 00", "%d %b %y")   # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
time.struct_time(tm_year=2000, tm_mon=11, tm_mday=30, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0,
                 tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=335, tm_isdst=-1)
										

支持 %Z directive is based on the values contained in tzname and whether daylight is true. Because of this, it is platform-specific except for recognizing UTC and GMT which are always known (and are considered to be non-daylight savings timezones).

Only the directives specified in the documentation are supported. Because strftime() is implemented per platform it can sometimes offer more directives than those listed. But strptime() is independent of any platform and thus does not necessarily support all directives available that are not documented as supported.

class time. struct_time ¶

The type of the time value sequence returned by gmtime() , localtime() ，和 strptime() . It is an object with a 命名元组 interface: values can be accessed by index and by attribute name. The following values are present:

索引	属性	值
0	tm_year	(for example, 1993)
1	tm_mon	range [1, 12]
2	tm_mday	range [1, 31]
3	tm_hour	range [0, 23]
4	tm_min	range [0, 59]
5	tm_sec	range [0, 61]; see (2) in strftime() description
6	tm_wday	range [0, 6], Monday is 0
7	tm_yday	range [1, 366]
8	tm_isdst	0, 1 or -1; see below
N/A	tm_zone	abbreviation of timezone name
N/A	tm_gmtoff	offset east of UTC in seconds

Note that unlike the C structure, the month value is a range of [1, 12], not [0, 11].

In calls to mktime() , tm_isdst may be set to 1 when daylight savings time is in effect, and 0 when it is not. A value of -1 indicates that this is not known, and will usually result in the correct state being filled in.

When a tuple with an incorrect length is passed to a function expecting a struct_time , or having elements of the wrong type, a TypeError 被引发。

time. time ( ) ¶

Return the time in seconds since the epoch as a floating point number. The specific date of the epoch and the handling of leap seconds is platform dependent. On Windows and most Unix systems, the epoch is January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 (UTC) and leap seconds are not counted towards the time in seconds since the epoch. This is commonly referred to as Unix time . To find out what the epoch is on a given platform, look at gmtime(0) .

Note that 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.

The number returned by time() may be converted into a more common time format (i.e. year, month, day, hour, etc…) in UTC by passing it to gmtime() function or in local time by passing it to the localtime() function. In both cases a struct_time object is returned, from which the components of the calendar date may be accessed as attributes.

time. tzset ( ) ¶

Resets the time conversion rules used by the library routines. The environment variable TZ specifies how this is done.

可用性：Unix。

注意

Although in many cases, changing the TZ environment variable may affect the output of functions like localtime() without calling tzset() , this behavior should not be relied on.

TZ environment variable should contain no whitespace.

The standard format of the TZ environment variable is (whitespace added for clarity):

std offset [dst [offset [,start[/time], end[/time]]]]
										

Where the components are:

std and dst

Three or more alphanumerics giving the timezone abbreviations. These will be propagated into time.tzname

offset

The offset has the form: ± hh[:mm[:ss]] . This indicates the value added the local time to arrive at UTC. If preceded by a ‘-‘, the timezone is east of the Prime Meridian; otherwise, it is west. If no offset follows dst, summer time is assumed to be one hour ahead of standard time.

start[/time], end[/time]

Indicates when to change to and back from DST. The format of the start and end dates are one of the following:

J n

The Julian day n (1 <= n <= 365). Leap days are not counted, so in all years February 28 is day 59 and March 1 is day 60.

n

The zero-based Julian day (0 <= n <= 365). Leap days are counted, and it is possible to refer to February 29.

M m . n . d

d ’th day (0 <= d <= 6) of week n of month m of the year (1 <= n <= 5, 1 <= m <= 12, where week 5 means “the last d day in month m ” which may occur in either the fourth or the fifth week). Week 1 is the first week in which the d ’th day occurs. Day zero is a Sunday.

time has the same format as offset except that no leading sign (‘-‘ or ‘+’) is allowed. The default, if time is not given, is 02:00:00.

>>> os.environ['TZ'] = 'EST+05EDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0'
>>> time.tzset()
>>> time.strftime('%X %x %Z')
'02:07:36 05/08/03 EDT'
>>> os.environ['TZ'] = 'AEST-10AEDT-11,M10.5.0,M3.5.0'
>>> time.tzset()
>>> time.strftime('%X %x %Z')
'16:08:12 05/08/03 AEST'
										

On many Unix systems (including *BSD, Linux, Solaris, and Darwin), it is more convenient to use the system’s zoneinfo ( tzfile(5) ) database to specify the timezone rules. To do this, set the TZ environment variable to the path of the required timezone datafile, relative to the root of the systems ‘zoneinfo’ timezone database, usually located at /usr/share/zoneinfo 。例如， 'US/Eastern' , 'Australia/Melbourne' , 'Egypt' or 'Europe/Amsterdam' .

>>> os.environ['TZ'] = 'US/Eastern'
>>> time.tzset()
>>> time.tzname
('EST', 'EDT')
>>> os.environ['TZ'] = 'Egypt'
>>> time.tzset()
>>> time.tzname
('EET', 'EEST')
										

16.3.2. 时钟 ID 常量 ¶

These constants are used as parameters for clock_getres() and clock_gettime() .

time. CLOCK_HIGHRES ¶

The Solaris OS has a CLOCK_HIGHRES timer that attempts to use an optimal hardware source, and may give close to nanosecond resolution. CLOCK_HIGHRES is the nonadjustable, high-resolution clock.

可用性：Solaris。

3.3 版新增。

time. CLOCK_MONOTONIC ¶

Clock that cannot be set and represents monotonic time since some unspecified starting point.

可用性：Unix。

3.3 版新增。

time. CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW ¶

类似 CLOCK_MONOTONIC , but provides access to a raw hardware-based time that is not subject to NTP adjustments.

Availability: Linux 2.6.28 or later.

3.3 版新增。

time. CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID ¶

High-resolution per-process timer from the CPU.

可用性：Unix。

3.3 版新增。

time. CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID ¶

Thread-specific CPU-time clock.

可用性：Unix。

3.3 版新增。

The following constant is the only parameter that can be sent to clock_settime() .

time. CLOCK_REALTIME ¶

System-wide real-time clock. Setting this clock requires appropriate privileges.

可用性：Unix。

3.3 版新增。

16.3.3. 时区常量 ¶

time. altzone ¶

The offset of the local DST timezone, in seconds west of UTC, if one is defined. This is negative if the local DST timezone is east of UTC (as in Western Europe, including the UK). Only use this if daylight is nonzero. See note below.

time. daylight ¶

Nonzero if a DST timezone is defined. See note below.

time. timezone ¶

The offset of the local (non-DST) timezone, in seconds west of UTC (negative in most of Western Europe, positive in the US, zero in the UK). See note below.

time. tzname ¶

A tuple of two strings: the first is the name of the local non-DST timezone, the second is the name of the local DST timezone. If no DST timezone is defined, the second string should not be used. See note below.

脚注

[1]

The use of %Z is now deprecated, but the %z escape that expands to the preferred hour/minute offset is not supported by all ANSI C libraries. Also, a strict reading of the original 1982 RFC 822 standard calls for a two-digit year (%y rather than %Y), but practice moved to 4-digit years long before the year 2000. After that, RFC 822 became obsolete and the 4-digit year has been first recommended by RFC 1123 and then mandated by RFC 2822 .