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Measuring the time it takes to perform an operation. Also, questions related to obtaining the current time, calculating on times, formatting and parsing times, etc.

Measuring the time it takes to perform an operation. Also, questions related to obtaining the current time, calculating on times, formatting and parsing times, etc. See also .

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How to get the current time in Python

What is the module/method used to get the current time?
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What do 'real', 'user' and 'sys' mean in the output of time(1)?

$ time foo real 0m0.003s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.004s $ What do 'real', 'user' and 'sys' mean in the output of time? Which one is meaningful when benchmarking my app?
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Calculate relative time in C#

Given a specific DateTime value, how do I display relative time, like: 2 hours ago 3 days ago a month ago
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Add days to JavaScript Date

How to add days to current Date using JavaScript. Does JavaScript have a built in function like .Net's AddDay?
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Convert a Unix timestamp to time in JavaScript

I am storing time in a MySQL database as a Unix timestamp and that gets sent to some JavaScript code. How would I get just the time out of it? For example, in HH/MM/SS format.
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How do I get time of a Python program's execution?

I have a command line program in Python that takes a while to finish. I want to know the exact time it takes to finish running. I've looked at the timeit module, but it seems it's only for small snippets of code. I want to time the whole program.
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How to get current time and date in Android

How can I get the current time and date in an Android app?
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Java string to date conversion

What is the best way to convert a String in the format 'January 2, 2010' to a Date in Java? Ultimately, I want to break out the month, the day, and the year as integers so that I can use Date date = new…
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How do I measure request and response times at once using cURL?

I have a web service that receives data in JSON format, processes the data, and then returns the result to the requester. I want to measure the request, response, and total time using cURL. My example request looks like: curl -X POST -d @file…
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How do I get the day of week given a date?

I want to find out the following: given a date (datetime object), what is the corresponding day of the week? For instance, Sunday is the first day, Monday: second day.. and so on And then if the input is something like today's date. Example >>>…
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Does Python's time.time() return the local or UTC timestamp?

Does time.time() in the Python time module return the system's time or the time in UTC?
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Get current time in milliseconds in Python?

How can I get the current time in milliseconds in Python?
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How to convert Milliseconds to "X mins, x seconds" in Java?

I want to record the time using System.currentTimeMillis() when a user begins something in my program. When he finishes, I will subtract the current System.currentTimeMillis() from the start variable, and I want to show them the time elapsed using a…
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How do I measure execution time of a command on the Windows command line?

Is there a built-in way to measure execution time of a command on the Windows command line?
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NOW() function in PHP

Is there a PHP function that returns the date and time in the same format as the MySQL function NOW()? I know how to do it using date(), but I am asking if there is a function only for this. For example, to return: 2009-12-01 00:00:00
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