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<span id="time-time-access-and-conversions"></span><h1>15.3. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-time" title="time: Time access and conversions."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> — Time access and conversions<a class="headerlink" href="#module-time" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>This module provides various time-related functions. For related
functionality, see also the <a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="calendar.html#module-calendar" title="calendar: Functions for working with calendars, including some emulation of the Unix cal program."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">calendar</span></code></a> modules.</p>
<p>Although this module is always available,
not all functions are available on all platforms. Most of the functions
defined in this module call platform C library functions with the same name. It
may sometimes be helpful to consult the platform documentation, because the
semantics of these functions varies among platforms.</p>
<p>An explanation of some terminology and conventions is in order.</p>
<ul class="simple" id="index-0">
<li><p>The <em class="dfn">epoch</em> is the point where the time starts. On January 1st of that
year, at 0 hours, the “time since the epoch” is zero. For Unix, the epoch is
1970. To find out what the epoch is, look at <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime(0)</span></code>.</p></li>
</ul>
<ul class="simple" id="index-1">
<li><p>The functions in this module do not handle dates and times before the epoch or
far in the future. The cut-off point in the future is determined by the C
library; for Unix, it is typically in 2038.</p></li>
</ul>
<span id="index-2"></span><ul class="simple" id="time-y2kissues">
<li><p><strong>Year 2000 (Y2K) issues</strong>: Python depends on the platform’s C library, which
generally doesn’t have year 2000 issues, since all dates and times are
represented internally as seconds since the epoch. Functions accepting a
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> (see below) generally require a 4-digit year. For backward
compatibility, 2-digit years are supported if the module variable
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">accept2dyear</span></code> is a non-zero integer; this variable is initialized to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span></code>
unless the environment variable <span class="target" id="index-3"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONY2K"><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PYTHONY2K</span></code></a> is set to a non-empty
string, in which case it is initialized to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code>. Thus, you can set
<span class="target" id="index-4"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONY2K"><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PYTHONY2K</span></code></a> to a non-empty string in the environment to require 4-digit
years for all year input. When 2-digit years are accepted, they are converted
according to the POSIX or X/Open standard: values 69-99 are mapped to 1969-1999,
and values 0–68 are mapped to 2000–2068. Values 100–1899 are always illegal.</p></li>
</ul>
<ul class="simple" id="index-5">
<li><p>UTC is Coordinated Universal Time (formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time, or
GMT). The acronym UTC is not a mistake but a compromise between English and
French.</p></li>
</ul>
<ul id="index-6">
<li><p>DST is Daylight Saving Time, an adjustment of the timezone by (usually) one
hour during part of the year. DST rules are magic (determined by local law) and
can change from year to year. The C library has a table containing the local
rules (often it is read from a system file for flexibility) and is the only
source of True Wisdom in this respect.</p></li>
<li><p>The precision of the various real-time functions may be less than suggested by
the units in which their value or argument is expressed. E.g. on most Unix
systems, the clock “ticks” only 50 or 100 times a second.</p></li>
<li><p>On the other hand, the precision of <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.sleep" title="time.sleep"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sleep()</span></code></a> is better
than their Unix equivalents: times are expressed as floating point numbers,
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> returns the most accurate time available (using Unix
<code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gettimeofday()</span></code> where available), and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.sleep" title="time.sleep"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sleep()</span></code></a> will accept a time
with a nonzero fraction (Unix <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">select()</span></code> is used to implement this, where
available).</p></li>
<li><p>The time value as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a>, and
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a>, and accepted by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.asctime" title="time.asctime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asctime()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#time.mktime" title="time.mktime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mktime()</span></code></a> and
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a>, may be considered as a sequence of 9 integers. The return
values of <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a>, and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a> also offer
attribute names for individual fields.</p>
<p>See <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> for a description of these objects.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.2: </span>The time value sequence was changed from a tuple to a <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a>, with
the addition of attribute names for the fields.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>Use the following functions to convert between time representations:</p>
<table class="docutils align-center">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 33%" />
<col style="width: 33%" />
<col style="width: 33%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>From</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>To</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Use</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>seconds since the epoch</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> in
UTC</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>seconds since the epoch</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> in
local time</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> in
UTC</p></td>
<td><p>seconds since the epoch</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="calendar.html#calendar.timegm" title="calendar.timegm"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">calendar.timegm()</span></code></a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> in
local time</p></td>
<td><p>seconds since the epoch</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#time.mktime" title="time.mktime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mktime()</span></code></a></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The module defines the following functions and data items:</p>
<dl class="data">
<dt id="time.accept2dyear">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">accept2dyear</code><a class="headerlink" href="#time.accept2dyear" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Boolean value indicating whether two-digit year values will be accepted. This
is true by default, but will be set to false if the environment variable
<span class="target" id="index-7"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONY2K"><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PYTHONY2K</span></code></a> has been set to a non-empty string. It may also be modified
at run time.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="data">
<dt id="time.altzone">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">altzone</code><a class="headerlink" href="#time.altzone" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>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 <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">daylight</span></code> is nonzero.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="time.asctime">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">asctime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em>t</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.asctime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Convert a tuple or <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> representing a time as returned by
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> to a 24-character string of the following
form: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Sun</span> <span class="pre">Jun</span> <span class="pre">20</span> <span class="pre">23:21:05</span> <span class="pre">1993'</span></code>. If <em>t</em> is not provided, the current time
as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> is used. Locale information is not used by
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.asctime" title="time.asctime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asctime()</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Unlike the C function of the same name, there is no trailing newline.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.1: </span>Allowed <em>t</em> to be omitted.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="time.clock">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">clock</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.clock" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p id="index-8">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, but in any
case, this is the function to use for benchmarking Python or timing algorithms.</p>
<p>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
<code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">QueryPerformanceCounter()</span></code>. The resolution is typically better than one
microsecond.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="time.ctime">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">ctime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em>secs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.ctime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a string representing
local time. If <em>secs</em> is not provided or <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>, the current time as
returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> is used. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ctime(secs)</span></code> is equivalent to
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asctime(localtime(secs))</span></code>. Locale information is not used by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.ctime" title="time.ctime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ctime()</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.1: </span>Allowed <em>secs</em> to be omitted.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.4: </span>If <em>secs</em> is <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>, the current time is used.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="data">
<dt id="time.daylight">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">daylight</code><a class="headerlink" href="#time.daylight" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Nonzero if a DST timezone is defined.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="time.gmtime">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">gmtime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em>secs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.gmtime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> in
UTC in which the dst flag is always zero. If <em>secs</em> is not provided or
<a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>, the current time as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> is used. Fractions
of a second are ignored. See above for a description of the
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> object. See <a class="reference internal" href="calendar.html#calendar.timegm" title="calendar.timegm"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">calendar.timegm()</span></code></a> for the inverse of this
function.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.1: </span>Allowed <em>secs</em> to be omitted.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.4: </span>If <em>secs</em> is <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>, the current time is used.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="time.localtime">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">localtime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em>secs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.localtime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Like <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a> but converts to local time. If <em>secs</em> is not provided or
<a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>, the current time as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a> is used. The dst
flag is set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span></code> when DST applies to the given time.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.1: </span>Allowed <em>secs</em> to be omitted.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.4: </span>If <em>secs</em> is <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>, the current time is used.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="time.mktime">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">mktime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>t</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.mktime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This is the inverse function of <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a>. Its argument is the
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> or full 9-tuple (since the dst flag is needed; use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-1</span></code>
as the dst flag if it is unknown) which expresses the time in <em>local</em> time, not
UTC. It returns a floating point number, for compatibility with <a class="reference internal" href="#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a>.
If the input value cannot be represented as a valid time, either
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.OverflowError" title="exceptions.OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.ValueError" title="exceptions.ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> 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.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="time.sleep">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">sleep</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>secs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.sleep" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Suspend execution of the current 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 <a class="reference internal" href="#time.sleep" title="time.sleep"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sleep()</span></code></a> 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.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="time.strftime">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">strftime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>format</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>t</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.strftime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Convert a tuple or <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> representing a time as returned by
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> to a string as specified by the <em>format</em>
argument. If <em>t</em> is not provided, the current time as returned by
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> is used. <em>format</em> must be a string. <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.ValueError" title="exceptions.ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is
raised if any field in <em>t</em> is outside of the allowed range. <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a>
returns a locale dependent byte string; the result may be converted to unicode
by doing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime(<myformat>).decode(locale.getlocale()[1])</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.1: </span>Allowed <em>t</em> to be omitted.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.4: </span><a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.ValueError" title="exceptions.ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> raised if a field in <em>t</em> is out of range.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.5: </span>0 is now a legal argument for any position in the time tuple; if it is normally
illegal the value is forced to a correct one.</p>
</div>
<p>The following directives can be embedded in the <em>format</em> string. They are shown
without the optional field width and precision specification, and are replaced
by the indicated characters in the <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a> result:</p>
<table class="docutils align-center">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 22%" />
<col style="width: 64%" />
<col style="width: 14%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Directive</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Meaning</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Notes</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%a</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s abbreviated weekday
name.</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%A</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s full weekday name.</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%b</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s abbreviated month
name.</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%B</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s full month name.</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%c</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s appropriate date and
time representation.</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%d</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Day of the month as a decimal
number [01,31].</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%H</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Hour (24-hour clock) as a
decimal number [00,23].</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%I</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Hour (12-hour clock) as a
decimal number [01,12].</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%j</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Day of the year as a decimal
number [001,366].</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%m</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Month as a decimal number
[01,12].</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%M</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Minute as a decimal number
[00,59].</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%p</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s equivalent of either
AM or PM.</p></td>
<td><p>(1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%S</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Second as a decimal number
[00,61].</p></td>
<td><p>(2)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%U</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>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.</p></td>
<td><p>(3)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%w</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Weekday as a decimal number
[0(Sunday),6].</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%W</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>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.</p></td>
<td><p>(3)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%x</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s appropriate date
representation.</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%X</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s appropriate time
representation.</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%y</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Year without century as a
decimal number [00,99].</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Y</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Year with century as a decimal
number.</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Z</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Time zone name (no characters
if no time zone exists).</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%%</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>A literal <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'%'</span></code> character.</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Notes:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p>When used with the <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a> function, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%p</span></code> directive only affects
the output hour field if the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%I</span></code> directive is used to parse the hour.</p></li>
<li><p>The range really is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code> to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">61</span></code>; this accounts for leap seconds and the
(very rare) double leap seconds.</p></li>
<li><p>When used with the <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a> function, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%U</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%W</span></code> are only used in
calculations when the day of the week and the year are specified.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Here is an example, a format for dates compatible with that specified in the
<span class="target" id="index-9"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html"><strong>RFC 2822</strong></a> Internet email standard. <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id2" id="id1">1</a></p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">time</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">gmtime</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">strftime</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">strftime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="si">%a</span><span class="s2">, </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2"> %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">gmtime</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="go">'Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:17:15 +0000'</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>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 <em class="manpage">strftime(3)</em>
documentation.</p>
<p>On some platforms, an optional field width and precision specification can
immediately follow the initial <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'%'</span></code> of a directive in the following order;
this is also not portable. The field width is normally 2 except for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%j</span></code> where
it is 3.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="time.strptime">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">strptime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>string</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>format</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.strptime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Parse a string representing a time according to a format. The return value is
a <a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a> as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>The <em>format</em> parameter uses the same directives as those used by
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a>; it defaults to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"%a</span> <span class="pre">%b</span> <span class="pre">%d</span> <span class="pre">%H:%M:%S</span> <span class="pre">%Y"</span></code> which matches the
formatting returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.ctime" title="time.ctime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ctime()</span></code></a>. If <em>string</em> cannot be parsed according to
<em>format</em>, or if it has excess data after parsing, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.ValueError" title="exceptions.ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is raised.
The default values used to fill in any missing data when more accurate values
cannot be inferred are <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(1900,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">-1)</span></code>.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">time</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strptime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"30 Nov 00"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2"> %b %y"</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE</span>
<span class="go">time.struct_time(tm_year=2000, tm_mon=11, tm_mday=30, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0,</span>
<span class="go"> tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=335, tm_isdst=-1)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Support for the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Z</span></code> directive is based on the values contained in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzname</span></code>
and whether <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">daylight</span></code> 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).</p>
<p>Only the directives specified in the documentation are supported. Because
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code> is implemented per platform it can sometimes offer more
directives than those listed. But <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> is independent of any platform
and thus does not necessarily support all directives available that are not
documented as supported.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="time.struct_time">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">struct_time</code><a class="headerlink" href="#time.struct_time" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The type of the time value sequence returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a>,
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a>, and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a>. It is an object with a <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-named-tuple"><span class="xref std std-term">named
tuple</span></a> interface: values can be accessed by index and by attribute name. The
following values are present:</p>
<table class="docutils align-center">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 12%" />
<col style="width: 32%" />
<col style="width: 56%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Index</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Attribute</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Values</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>0</p></td>
<td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_year</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>(for example, 1993)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>1</p></td>
<td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_mon</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>range [1, 12]</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>2</p></td>
<td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_mday</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>range [1, 31]</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>3</p></td>
<td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_hour</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>range [0, 23]</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>4</p></td>
<td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_min</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>range [0, 59]</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>5</p></td>
<td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_sec</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>range [0, 61]; see <strong>(2)</strong> in
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a> description</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>6</p></td>
<td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_wday</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>range [0, 6], Monday is 0</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>7</p></td>
<td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_yday</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>range [1, 366]</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>8</p></td>
<td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_isdst</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>0, 1 or -1; see below</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 2.2.</span></p>
</div>
<p>Note that unlike the C structure, the month value is a range of [1, 12], not
[0, 11]. A year value will be handled as described under <a class="reference internal" href="#time-y2kissues"><span class="std std-ref">Year 2000
(Y2K) issues</span></a> above.</p>
<p>In calls to <a class="reference internal" href="#time.mktime" title="time.mktime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mktime()</span></code></a>, <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_isdst</span></code> 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.</p>
<p>When a tuple with an incorrect length is passed to a function expecting a
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct_time</span></code></a>, or having elements of the wrong type, a
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.TypeError" title="exceptions.TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> is raised.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="time.time">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">time</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.time" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the time in seconds since the epoch as a floating point number.
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.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="data">
<dt id="time.timezone">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">timezone</code><a class="headerlink" href="#time.timezone" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>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).</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="data">
<dt id="time.tzname">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">tzname</code><a class="headerlink" href="#time.tzname" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>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.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="time.tzset">
<code class="descclassname">time.</code><code class="descname">tzset</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#time.tzset" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Reset the time conversion rules used by the library routines. The environment
variable <span class="target" id="index-10"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> specifies how this is done. It will also set the variables
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzname</span></code> (from the <span class="target" id="index-11"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> environment variable), <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code> (non-DST
seconds West of UTC), <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">altzone</span></code> (DST seconds west of UTC) and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">daylight</span></code>
(to 0 if this timezone does not have any daylight saving time rules, or to
nonzero if there is a time, past, present or future when daylight saving time
applies).</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 2.3.</span></p>
</div>
<p>Availability: Unix.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Although in many cases, changing the <span class="target" id="index-12"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> environment variable may
affect the output of functions like <a class="reference internal" href="#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code></a> without calling
<a class="reference internal" href="#time.tzset" title="time.tzset"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzset()</span></code></a>, this behavior should not be relied on.</p>
<p>The <span class="target" id="index-13"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> environment variable should contain no whitespace.</p>
</div>
<p>The standard format of the <span class="target" id="index-14"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> environment variable is (whitespace
added for clarity):</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">std</span> <span class="n">offset</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">dst</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">offset</span> <span class="p">[,</span><span class="n">start</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">end</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">]]]]</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Where the components are:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">std</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst</span></code></dt><dd><p>Three or more alphanumerics giving the timezone abbreviations. These will be
propagated into time.tzname</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">offset</span></code></dt><dd><p>The offset has the form: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">±</span> <span class="pre">hh[:mm[:ss]]</span></code>. 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.</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">start[/time],</span> <span class="pre">end[/time]</span></code></dt><dd><p>Indicates when to change to and back from DST. The format of the
start and end dates are one of the following:</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt><code class="samp docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">J</span><em><span class="pre">n</span></em></code></dt><dd><p>The Julian day <em>n</em> (1 <= <em>n</em> <= 365). Leap days are not counted, so in
all years February 28 is day 59 and March 1 is day 60.</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="samp docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">n</span></em></code></dt><dd><p>The zero-based Julian day (0 <= <em>n</em> <= 365). Leap days are counted, and
it is possible to refer to February 29.</p>
</dd>
<dt><code class="samp docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">M</span><em><span class="pre">m</span></em><span class="pre">.</span><em><span class="pre">n</span></em><span class="pre">.</span><em><span class="pre">d</span></em></code></dt><dd><p>The <em>d</em>’th day (0 <= <em>d</em> <= 6) or week <em>n</em> of month <em>m</em> of the year (1
<= <em>n</em> <= 5, 1 <= <em>m</em> <= 12, where week 5 means “the last <em>d</em> day in
month <em>m</em>” which may occur in either the fourth or the fifth
week). Week 1 is the first week in which the <em>d</em>’th day occurs. Day
zero is Sunday.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code> has the same format as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">offset</span></code> except that no leading sign
(‘-‘ or ‘+’) is allowed. The default, if time is not given, is 02:00:00.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'TZ'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'EST+05EDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzset</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strftime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'</span><span class="si">%X</span><span class="s1"> </span><span class="si">%x</span><span class="s1"> %Z'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">'02:07:36 05/08/03 EDT'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'TZ'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'AEST-10AEDT-11,M10.5.0,M3.5.0'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzset</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strftime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'</span><span class="si">%X</span><span class="s1"> </span><span class="si">%x</span><span class="s1"> %Z'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">'16:08:12 05/08/03 AEST'</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>On many Unix systems (including *BSD, Linux, Solaris, and Darwin), it is more
convenient to use the system’s zoneinfo (<em class="manpage">tzfile(5)</em>) database to
specify the timezone rules. To do this, set the <span class="target" id="index-15"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TZ</span></code> environment
variable to the path of the required timezone datafile, relative to the root of
the systems ‘zoneinfo’ timezone database, usually located at
<code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/usr/share/zoneinfo</span></code>. For example, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'US/Eastern'</span></code>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Australia/Melbourne'</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Egypt'</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Europe/Amsterdam'</span></code>.</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'TZ'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'US/Eastern'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzset</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzname</span>
<span class="go">('EST', 'EDT')</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'TZ'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'Egypt'</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzset</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzname</span>
<span class="go">('EET', 'EEST')</span>
</pre></div>
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<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="datetime.html#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>More object-oriented interface to dates and times.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="locale.html#module-locale" title="locale: Internationalization services."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">locale</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>Internationalization services. The locale setting affects the interpretation
of many format specifiers in <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strftime" title="time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="calendar.html#module-calendar" title="calendar: Functions for working with calendars, including some emulation of the Unix cal program."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">calendar</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>General calendar-related functions. <a class="reference internal" href="calendar.html#calendar.timegm" title="calendar.timegm"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timegm()</span></code></a> is the
inverse of <a class="reference internal" href="#time.gmtime" title="time.gmtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code></a> from this module.</p>
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<dt class="label" id="id2"><span class="brackets"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">1</a></span></dt>
<dd><p>The use of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Z</span></code> is now deprecated, but the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%z</span></code> 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 <span class="target" id="index-16"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822.html"><strong>RFC 822</strong></a> 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, <span class="target" id="index-17"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822.html"><strong>RFC 822</strong></a> became obsolete and the 4-digit year has
been first recommended by <span class="target" id="index-18"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123.html"><strong>RFC 1123</strong></a> and then mandated by <span class="target" id="index-19"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.html"><strong>RFC 2822</strong></a>.</p>
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