time.gmtime() code example

Example 1: python clock

# Here is a self updating clock function, just run it and it'll self update itself until you hit CTRL-C
import datetime
import time
def clock():
    while True:
        print(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M:%S"), end="\r")
        time.sleep(1)

clock()

Example 2: time module in python

import time
seconds = time.time()
print("Seconds since epoch =", seconds)