Time

API Documents

Constructors

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Methods

time.sleep(seconds[required])

This method will stop the microcontroller from what it is doing and delay for the given time.

• seconds: number of seconds, must be an integer

time.sleep_ms(milliseconds[required])

This method will stop the microcontroller from what it is doing and delay for the given time.

• milliseconds: number of milliseconds, must be an integer

time.sleep_us(microseconds[required])

This method will stop the microcontroller from what it is doing and delay for the given time.

• microseconds: number of microseconds, must be an integer

time.time()

This method will return the total number of seconds elapsed since Epoch (1970-01-01).

time.localtime()

This method will return RTC’s local time in the following format,

(year, month, date, hour, minute, second, weekday[0-6 for Mon to Sun], yearday[1-366])

time.mktime(tuple[required])

This is inverse function of localtime. Its argument is a full 8-tuple which expresses a time as per localtime. It returns an integer which is the number of seconds since Jan 1, 2000.

• tuple: an 8-element tuple

time.ticks_ms()

This method returns an increasing millisecond counter with an arbitrary reference point. Normally used together with ticks_add() and ticks_diff()

time.ticks_add(starting_ticks[required], ticks_added[required])

This method add given number of ticks to the starting_ticks.

• starting_ticks: millisecond counter obtained from ticks_ms()

• ticks_added: number of ticks to add

time.ticks_diff(end_ticks[required], starting_ticks[required])

This method perform subtraction on parameters given and return the difference of end_ticks minus starting_ticks.

• end_ticks: millisecond counter obtained from ticks_ms()

• starting_ticks: millisecond counter obtained from ticks_ms()