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Last Updated: 25 June 2025

A time delay means pausing the program for a short period before continuing to the next step. This is useful when you want to slow down the execution, like waiting between...read more

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Python - time.ctime() Method

Last Updated: 16 July 2021

Python time.ctime() method converts a time in seconds since the epoch to a string in local time. This is equivalent to asctime(localtime(seconds)). Current time is returne...read more

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How to Measure Elapsed Time in Python

Last Updated: 23 April 2025

In Python, we can measure the elapsed time (time taken for a specific task to complete) on executing a code segment or a Python script. It's useful when we are benchmarkin...read more

How to check the Execution Time of Python script ?

Last Updated: 27 June 2025

Checking the execution time of a python script helps you measure how long a piece of code takes to run. This is useful for analyzing performance, especially when working w...read more

Last Updated: 13 August 2024

In this article, we will discuss the time module and various functions provided by this module with the help of good examples.As the name suggests Python time module allow...read more

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Python time strptime() function

Last Updated: 13 September 2021

The strptime() function in Python is used to format and return a string representation of date and time. It takes in the date, time, or both as an input, and parses it acc...read more

Python time.thread_time() Function

Last Updated: 05 November 2021

Timer objects are used to represent actions that need to be scheduled to run after a certain instant of time. These objects get scheduled to run on a separate thread that ...read more

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Python time.thread_time_ns() Function

Last Updated: 05 November 2021

Python time.thread_time_ns() function is used to return the value of the sum of the system and user CPU time of the current thread. It is similar to time.thread_time() fun...read more

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Python time.timezone Constant

Last Updated: 05 November 2021

Python time. timezone constant returns the local (non-DST) timezone offset in UTC format, where DST stands for Daylight Saving Time. It is negative in most of Western Euro...read more

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Python time altzone() Method

Last Updated: 05 November 2021

Python altzone() method is used to return the offset of the local DST timezone, in seconds west of UTC. We can also get the current time between the current time zone and ...read more

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Python time.perf_counter_ns() Function

Last Updated: 05 November 2021

Python time.perf_counter_ns() function gives the integer value of time in nanoseconds.Syntax:from time import perf_counter_nsWe can find the elapsed time by using start an...read more

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Python time.tzname() Function

Last Updated: 22 November 2021

Time tzname() in Python returns the tuple of two strings in which the first string is the name of the local non-DST timezone and the second string is the name of the local...read more

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Python time.tzset() Function

Last Updated: 05 August 2022

In Python, the tzset() function of the time module is based on the re-initialization settings using the environment variable TZ. tzset() method of time module in python re...read more

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Python time.daylight() Function

Last Updated: 19 December 2021

Time.daylight() function which returns a non zero integer value when Daylight Saving Time (DST) is defined, else it returns 0. Daylight Saving Time, in short, is called DS...read more

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Python time.pthread_getcpuclockid() Function

Last Updated: 21 February 2022

The pthread_getcpuclockid() function returns the clock id of the thread-specific CPU-time clock for the specified thread_id. The thread ids are obtained from the different...read more

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