Timing utilities

commons.timing.get_current_utc() → datetime

Fetch a UTC timezone aware datetime.

Returns:

The current UTC time as an aware datetime.

Return type:

datetime.datetime

commons.timing.is_within_next_(current_datetime: datetime, expected_datetime: datetime, delta: timedelta = datetime.timedelta(seconds=300)) → bool

Returns true if the times are within X minutes of each other

Parameters:

• current_datetime (datetime.datetime) – Now.

• expected_datetime (datetime.datetime) – When you want the thing to occur.

• delta (datetime.timedelta) –

  Return true if the two datetimes are within this delta.

  Defaults to 5 minutes.

Returns:

True if times within the given delta.

Return type:

bool

commons.timing.is_in_the_past(current_datetime: datetime, expected_datetime: datetime) → bool

Returns True if the datetime is in the past.