time (web, native) – Edge Python

time is clocks and calendar functions. Import it by bare name or declare it in the host field of packages.json. The native engine builds it in, see the native engine.

The surface is time, time_ns, monotonic, monotonic_ns, perf_counter, perf_counter_ns, sleep, gmtime, localtime, mktime, strftime, strptime, asctime, ctime, timezone, altzone, daylight, tzname. sleep suspends the coroutine. gmtime and localtime return the nine fields as a JSON string in struct_time order, decode them with json.loads. tm_wday is Monday=0, tm_yday is 1-based, and tm_isdst is always -1. time_ns returns a decimal string, because epoch nanoseconds exceed what a JS number can hold. timezone, altzone, daylight, and tzname are calls, not constants, and tzname returns the IANA zone name.

gmtime takes epoch seconds and returns UTC fields, which read the same on every host:

import json import time fields = json.loads(time.gmtime(0)) print(fields) print(time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.gmtime(0)))

Output · expected


[1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 1, -1]
1970-01-01 00:00:00

Known limitations: the native engine is always UTC. There is no timezone database, so tzname() is "UTC" there. CPU and POSIX clocks are out of scope on both runtimes.