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Attributes: <tt class="member">year</tt>, <tt class="member">month</tt>, and <tt class="member">day</tt>. </dl> <P> <dl><dt><b><span class="typelabel">class</span> <tt id='l2h-1669' class="class">time</tt></b> <dd> An idealized time, independent of any particular day, assuming that every day has exactly 24*60*60 seconds (there is no notion of "leap seconds" here). Attributes: <tt class="member">hour</tt>, <tt class="member">minute</tt>, <tt class="member">second</tt>, <tt class="member">microsecond</tt>, and <tt class="member">tzinfo</tt>. </dl> <P> <dl><dt><b><span class="typelabel">class</span> <tt id='l2h-1670' class="class">datetime</tt></b> <dd> A combination of a date and a time. Attributes: <tt class="member">year</tt>, <tt class="member">month</tt>, <tt class="member">day</tt>, <tt class="member">hour</tt>, <tt class="member">minute</tt>, <tt class="member">second</tt>, <tt class="member">microsecond</tt>, and <tt class="member">tzinfo</tt>. </dl> <P> <dl><dt><b><span class="typelabel">class</span> <tt id='l2h-1671' class="class">timedelta</tt></b> <dd> A duration expressing the difference between two <tt class="class">date</tt>, <tt class="class">time</tt>, or <tt class="class">datetime</tt> instances to microsecond resolution. </dl> <P> <dl><dt><b><span class="typelabel">class</span> <tt id='l2h-1672' class="class">tzinfo</tt></b> <dd> An abstract base class for time zone information objects. These are used by the <tt class="class">datetime</tt> and <tt class="class">time</tt> classes to provide a customizable notion of time adjustment (for example, to account for time zone and/or daylight saving time). </dl> <P> Objects of these types are immutable. <P> Objects of the <tt class="class">date</tt> type are always naive. <P> An object <var>d</var> of type <tt class="class">time</tt> or <tt class="class">datetime</tt> may be naive or aware. <var>d</var> is aware if <code><var>d</var>.tzinfo</code> is not <code>None</code> and <code><var>d</var>.tzinfo.utcoffset(<var>d</var>)</code> does not return <code>None</code>. If <code><var>d</var>.tzinfo</code> is <code>None</code>, or if <code><var>d</var>.tzinfo</code> is not <code>None</code> but <code><var>d</var>.tzinfo.utcoffset(<var>d</var>)</code> returns <code>None</code>, <var>d</var> is naive. <P> The distinction between naive and aware doesn't apply to <code>timedelta</code> objects. <P> Subclass relationships: <P> <div class="verbatim"><pre> object timedelta tzinfo time date datetime </pre></div> <P> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <div class='online-navigation'><hr /> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="6.9 datetime " rel="prev" title="6.9 datetime " href="module-datetime.html"><img src='../icons/previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="6.9 datetime " rel="parent" title="6.9 datetime " href="module-datetime.html"><img src='../icons/up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up One Level' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="6.9.2 timedelta Objects" rel="next" title="6.9.2 timedelta Objects" href="datetime-timedelta.html"><img src='../icons/next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Python Library Reference</td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='../icons/contents.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a href="modindex.html" title="Module Index"><img src='../icons/modules.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Module Index' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="index" title="Index" rel="index" title="Index" href="genindex.html"><img src='../icons/index.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Index' width='32' /></A></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="module-datetime.html">6.9 datetime </A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="module-datetime.html">6.9 datetime </A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="datetime-timedelta.html">6.9.2 timedelta Objects</A> </div> </div> <hr /> <span class="release-info">Release 2.3.4, documentation updated on May 20, 2004.</span> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <ADDRESS> See <i><a href="about.html">About this document...</a></i> for information on suggesting changes. </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>