<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>timestamp – Tools for representing MongoDB internal Timestamps — PyMongo 3.7.2 documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../_static/pydoctheme.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" id="documentation_options" data-url_root="../../" src="../../_static/documentation_options.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../_static/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../_static/underscore.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../_static/doctools.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../_static/language_data.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../../_static/sidebar.js"></script> <link rel="index" title="Index" href="../../genindex.html" /> <link rel="search" title="Search" href="../../search.html" /> <link rel="next" title="tz_util – Utilities for dealing with timezones in Python" href="tz_util.html" /> <link rel="prev" title="son – Tools for working with SON, an ordered mapping" href="son.html" /> </head><body> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../../genindex.html" title="General Index" accesskey="I">index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="tz_util.html" title="tz_util – Utilities for dealing with timezones in Python" accesskey="N">next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="son.html" title="son – Tools for working with SON, an ordered mapping" accesskey="P">previous</a> |</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-0"><a href="../../index.html">PyMongo 3.7.2 documentation</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="../index.html" >API Documentation</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-2"><a href="index.html" accesskey="U"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bson</span></code> – BSON (Binary JSON) Encoding and Decoding</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body" role="main"> <div class="section" id="module-bson.timestamp"> <span id="timestamp-tools-for-representing-mongodb-internal-timestamps"></span><h1><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timestamp</span></code> – Tools for representing MongoDB internal Timestamps<a class="headerlink" href="#module-bson.timestamp" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>Tools for representing MongoDB internal Timestamps.</p> <dl class="class"> <dt id="bson.timestamp.Timestamp"> <em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">bson.timestamp.</code><code class="descname">Timestamp</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>time</em>, <em>inc</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#bson.timestamp.Timestamp" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Create a new <a class="reference internal" href="#bson.timestamp.Timestamp" title="bson.timestamp.Timestamp"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Timestamp</span></code></a>.</p> <p>This class is only for use with the MongoDB opLog. If you need to store a regular timestamp, please use a <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code>.</p> <p>Raises <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code> if <cite>time</cite> is not an instance of :class: <cite>int</cite> or <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code>, or <cite>inc</cite> is not an instance of <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">int</span></code>. Raises <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code> if <cite>time</cite> or <cite>inc</cite> is not in [0, 2**32).</p> <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> <col class="field-name" /> <col class="field-body" /> <tbody valign="top"> <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first last simple"> <li><cite>time</cite>: time in seconds since epoch UTC, or a naive UTC <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code>, or an aware <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></li> <li><cite>inc</cite>: the incrementing counter</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.timestamp.Timestamp.as_datetime"> <code class="descname">as_datetime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#bson.timestamp.Timestamp.as_datetime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Return a <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code> instance corresponding to the time portion of this <a class="reference internal" href="#bson.timestamp.Timestamp" title="bson.timestamp.Timestamp"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Timestamp</span></code></a>.</p> <p>The returned datetime’s timezone is UTC.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="attribute"> <dt id="bson.timestamp.Timestamp.inc"> <code class="descname">inc</code><a class="headerlink" href="#bson.timestamp.Timestamp.inc" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Get the inc portion of this <a class="reference internal" href="#bson.timestamp.Timestamp" title="bson.timestamp.Timestamp"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Timestamp</span></code></a>.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="attribute"> <dt id="bson.timestamp.Timestamp.time"> <code class="descname">time</code><a class="headerlink" href="#bson.timestamp.Timestamp.time" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Get the time portion of this <a class="reference internal" href="#bson.timestamp.Timestamp" title="bson.timestamp.Timestamp"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Timestamp</span></code></a>.</p> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="son.html" title="previous chapter"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">son</span></code> – Tools for working with SON, an ordered mapping</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="tz_util.html" title="next chapter"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tz_util</span></code> – Utilities for dealing with timezones in Python</a></p> <div role="note" aria-label="source link"> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../../_sources/api/bson/timestamp.rst.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <div class="searchformwrapper"> <form class="search" action="../../search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="tz_util.html" title="tz_util – Utilities for dealing with timezones in Python" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="son.html" title="son – Tools for working with SON, an ordered mapping" >previous</a> |</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-0"><a href="../../index.html">PyMongo 3.7.2 documentation</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="../index.html" >API Documentation</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-2"><a href="index.html" ><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bson</span></code> – BSON (Binary JSON) Encoding and Decoding</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> © Copyright MongoDB, Inc. 2008-present. 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