time intervals

[project_science]

I solved it, and the time stamps looks approximately difference by 1.01s, which I assume means there's 0.01s need for processing time. I'm assuming there's a better way to do time deltas, but for data logging, I think this would be ok, no?

from datetime import datetime
import time

print("\n*Timestamps*")

def time_stamps():
    return datetime.now()  # object to class datatime

x = time_stamps()
time.sleep(1)
y = time_stamps()
print(x)
print(y)

# Time Delays
    #time.sleep(1) # wait 1 second (s)
    #time.sleep(1/1000) # wait 1 millisecond (ms)
    #time.sleep(1/1000000) # wait 1 microsecond (us)
    #time.sleep(1 / 100000000)  # wait 1 nanosecond (ns)


if x > y:
    print("\ninstance 1 (x) is greater by: ",abs(x-y), "seconds")

else:
    print("\ninstance 2 (y) is greater by:", abs(x-y), "seconds")


print("\n*DATETIME attributes use *")
now = datetime.now()  # create an object to class datetime
print("today = ", now.date()) # returns year-month-day
print("month =",now.year) # year
print("year =",now.month) # month
print("day =", now.day) # day
print("hour =", now.hour) # hours
print("minute =", now.minute) # minutes
print("seconds =", now.second) # seconds
print("microseconds =", now.microsecond)  # microseconds


# print all attributes in class datetime
print("\n*DATETIME attributes use *")
for x in dir(datetime):
        print(x)