How do I measure elapsed time in Python? - Stack Overflow This gives the execution time in seconds Another option since Python 3 3 might be to use perf_counter or process_time, depending on your requirements Before 3 3 it was recommended to use time clock (thanks Amber) However, it is currently deprecated: On Unix, return the current processor time as a floating point number expressed in seconds
Format date and time in a Windows batch script - Stack Overflow In a Windows (Windows nbsp;XP) batch script I need to format the current date and time for later use in files names, etc It is similar to Stack Overflow question How to append a date in batch fil
unix - Why is 1 1 1970 the epoch time? - Stack Overflow 505 Early versions of unix measured system time in 1 60 s intervals This meant that a 32-bit unsigned integer could only represent a span of time less than 829 days For this reason, the time represented by the number 0 (called the epoch) had to be set in the very recent past As this was in the early 1970s, the epoch was set to 1971-01-01