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Real Time Clock (RTC) in Python

Does Python have a Real Time Clock, which can give the exact year, month, day, hour, minute, and second? How can I use it?

Solution 
  • datetime.now()

    That's it. It gives the current date and time up to microseconds. Use as you want.

    For example, to set an alarm after 2 days by running a loop to check once per hour if the alarm time has been reached:

    alarm_time = date.today() + timedelta(days=2)

while date.today() != alarm_time:
    time.sleep(60 * 60)

# do here anything you want to do when alarm time is reached