Python Time Function | TimeStamp | Time Milli Seconds Now

Python Time Function is used for getting the time. In python to use the time function, you need to import time modules, no third-party library required. The python time function returns the time in seconds floating-point number since the epoch, in UTC

Syntax

You have to import the time module to get time.

import time
time.time()

Note: no parameters are required, but in some cases you needed a format.

Python Time Function Example 

import time

# Time in second
print("Time : ", time.time())

# Time with associated attribute and values
print(time.localtime(time.time()))

# Get local date format
print(time.asctime(time.localtime(time.time())))

Output: Time : 1538973413.1055639
time.struct_time(tm_year=2018, tm_mon=10, tm_mday=8, tm_hour=10, tm_min=6, tm_sec=53, tm_wday=0, tm_yday=281, tm_isdst=0)
Mon Oct 8 10:06:53 2018

Get the Hour, Minutes and Seconds

Here is an example of getting, How to get an Hour, Minutes, and seconds in using python time function?

import time

# Time with associated attribute and values

timeAll = time.localtime(time.time())
print("Hour: ", timeAll.tm_hour)
print("Minutes: ", timeAll.tm_min)
print("Seconds: ", timeAll.tm_sec)

Output: Hour: 12
Minutes: 17
Seconds: 10

Get the Year, Month and Day

With Time function you can get the Year, Month, and Day.

import time

# Time with associated attribute and values

timeAll = time.localtime(time.time())
print("Year: ", timeAll.tm_year)
print("Month: ", timeAll.tm_mon)
print("Day: ", timeAll.tm_mday)

Output: Year: 2018
Month: 10
Day: 8

Python time milliseconds 

To get a time in milliseconds you have to multiple in time object, like this example.

import time

timestamp = int(time.time() * 1000.0)
print('Milliseconds ', timestamp)

Output: Milliseconds 1538990568714

Do comment if you have any doubts and suggestions on this tutorial.

Note: This example (Project) is developed in PyCharm 2018.2 (Community Edition)
JRE: 1.8.0
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
macOS 10.13.6

Python 3.7

All examples are in Python 3, so it may change its different from python 2 or upgraded versions.