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jayda hendrickson
3,413 PointsTimestamp()
What is the point of the Timestamp() function, I'm having a hard time understanding its importance.
2 Answers
frankgenova
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 15,616 Pointstimestamp() is special because it gives you the number of seconds from a particular point in time to another point in time. The originating point of time is January 1, 1970. If you call now.time() you are getting the number of seconds between January 1, 1970, and now. Now assume that you have a program where different users are doing some action like make an entry or take a photo. You could have the program store the timestamp of each action. Then later if you want to compare what action was earliest, you could do this by simple numeric comparison. If you stored string values for month, date, date, time you would have difficulty doing comparison without a lot of conversions. I think of the POSIX timestamp() as w universal way to measure how recent (or old) something is with less code because the starting point is fixed and the same across all users of this function.
atdes
2,951 PointsYes. He does not explaining it. just keeping talking like everyone already know this. I had to google it.
take this as a feedback. you should tell all the teacher to explain things in detail. we are not here to watch how to code. we are here to learn.