roboto.time

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roboto.time.MAX_32BIT_EPOCH_SECONDS = 2147483647

roboto.time.NSEC_PER_SEC = 1000000000

type roboto.time.Time = Union[int, decimal.Decimal, str, datetime.datetime]

roboto.time.to_epoch_nanoseconds(value)

Takes a time value in any of the following formats, and converts it to unix epoch nanoseconds:

• datetime.datetime

• int: Unix epoch nanoseconds

• str: ROS formatted timestamp in the form of “<sec>.<nsec>”

• decimal.Decimal: ROS formatted timestamp in the form of decimal.Decimal(“<sec>.<nsec>”)

Parameters:

value (Time)

roboto.time.utcnow()

Return timezone aware datetime.datetime object, now in UTC.

Return type:

datetime.datetime