Attributes of time class in Python

time - class attributes

time.min

• Provides the minimum time that can be represented.

• The minimum time that can be represented is zero hours, zero minutes, zero seconds and zero microseconds.

• The minimum time is the first microsecond of a day.

time.max

• Provides the maximum time that can be represented.

• The maximum time that can be represented is 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds and 99999 microseconds.

• The maximum time is the last microsecond of a day.

time.resolution

• Represents the minimum difference between two unequal time objects.

• The resolution is 1 microsecond.

time - instance attributes

hour

• Represents the number of hours in a time quantity.
• Minimum hour is zero, which corresponds to 0 hours midnight or 12 AM.
• Maximum hour is 23, which corresponds 11PM.

minutes

• Represents the number of minutes in a time quantity.
• Minimum value is 0 and the maximum value is 59.

seconds

• Represents the number of seconds in a time quantity.
• Minimum value is 0 and the maximum value is 59.

microseconds

• Represents the number of microseconds in a time quantity.
• Minimum value is 0 and the maximum value is 999999.
• A microsecond is one millionth of a second -That is 1/1000000 second or 0.000001 second or 10^-6 second.

tzinfo

• An object of a tzinfo derived class.
• tzinfo attribute represents the time zone. The datetime module has a timezone concrete class for this purpose.

fold

• The fold attribute represents that whether at least once a fold in time has occurred for this time.
• A fold in time occurs when a clock is reversed back to the past time.
• If fold is set to 1 it means this time instance is result of a reversal of the clock.
• The fold attribute is required to model the event of clock reversal typically for duration of one hour at the end of the summer time or daylight saving time.

import datetime

# Create a timezone instance using timedelta

estTimeDelta    = datetime.timedelta(hours=-5)

estTZObject     = datetime.timezone(estTimeDelta, name="Eastern Standard Time")

# End of DST for 2017 - at 2 AM clock reversed to 1 AM

# So this 1 AM has a fold onto it

dstEndTime  = datetime.time(1,0,0,0,tzinfo=estTZObject,fold=1)

#print all the attributes of the time object

print("Hours:{}".format(dstEndTime.hour))

print("Minutes:{}".format(dstEndTime.minute))

print("Seconds:{}".format(dstEndTime.second))

print("MicroSeconds:{}".format(dstEndTime.microsecond))

print("Time zone:{}".format(dstEndTime.tzinfo))

print("Fold:{}".format(dstEndTime.fold))

Hours:1

Minutes:0

Seconds:0

MicroSeconds:0

Time zone:Eastern Standard Time

Fold:1