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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 and .

For analysis in , consider looking at the Time Series Task View.

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How do I get the current time?

How do I 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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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How do I get the current time in milliseconds in Python?

How do I get the current time in milliseconds in Python?
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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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What is this date format? 2011-08-12T20:17:46.384Z

I have the following date: 2011-08-12T20:17:46.384Z. What format is this? I'm trying to parse it with Java 1.4 via DateFormat.getDateInstance().parse(dateStr) and I'm getting java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date:…
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Getting current date and time in JavaScript

I have a script that prints the current date and time in JavaScript, but the DATE is always wrong. Here is the code: var currentdate = new Date(); var datetime = "Last Sync: " + currentdate.getDay() + "/" + currentdate.getMonth() + "/" +…
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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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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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