import datetime
import time

def now():
    return datetime.datetime.now()

# Prints one of the following formats*:
# 1.58 days
# 2.98 hours
# 9.28 minutes # Not actually added yet, oops.
# 5.60 seconds
# 790 milliseconds
# *Except I prefer abbreviated formats, so I print d,h,m,s, or ms. 
def format_delta(start,end):

    # Time in microseconds
    one_day = 86400000000
    one_hour = 3600000000
    one_second = 1000000
    one_millisecond = 1000

    delta = end - start

    build_time_us = delta.microseconds + delta.seconds * one_second + delta.days * one_day

    days = 0
    while build_time_us > one_day:
        build_time_us -= one_day
        days += 1

    if days > 0:
        time_str = "%.2fd" % ( days + build_time_us / float(one_day) )
    else:
        hours = 0
        while build_time_us > one_hour:
            build_time_us -= one_hour
            hours += 1
        if hours > 0:
            time_str = "%.2fh" % ( hours + build_time_us / float(one_hour) )
        else:
            seconds = 0
            while build_time_us > one_second:
                build_time_us -= one_second
                seconds += 1
            if seconds > 0:
                time_str = "%.2fs" % ( seconds + build_time_us / float(one_second) )
            else:
                ms = 0
                while build_time_us > one_millisecond:
                    build_time_us -= one_millisecond
                    ms += 1
                time_str = "%.2fms" % ( ms + build_time_us / float(one_millisecond) )
                print time_str;
    return time_str

# returns the elapsed milliseconds since the start of the program
def millis():
   dt = datetime.now() - start_time
   ms = (dt.days * 24 * 60 * 60 + dt.seconds) * 1000 + dt.microseconds / 1000.0
   return ms
#d = datetime.now()
#print "datetime.now", d
def TimestampMillisec64():
    return int((datetime.datetime.utcnow() - datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1)).total_seconds() * 1000)
    
now();
#format_delta(1496394245,1596400000);
ticks = time.time()
print "Number of ticks since 12:00am, January 1, 1970:", ticks
#print time_str;
localtime = time.asctime( time.localtime(time.time()) )
print "Local current time :", localtime

from datetime import datetime
dt = datetime.now()
print "datetime.now", dt