Does Python's time.time() return the local or UTC timestamp?

The time.time() function in Python returns the current timestamp as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the epoch, January 1, 1970 UTC). Here is an example of using the time.time() function to get the current timestamp:

Get the current timestamp in Python

import time

current_timestamp = time.time()
print(current_timestamp)

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If you want a UTC timestamp, you can use datetime.now(timezone.utc) from Python's datetime library. Here is an example of using datetime.now(timezone.utc) to get the current UTC time:

Get the current UTC timestamp in Python

from datetime import datetime, timezone

current_utc_time = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
print(current_utc_time)

Note that the above example returns a timezone-aware datetime object, not a numeric timestamp. If you need a numeric UTC timestamp (seconds since epoch), you can call .timestamp() on it:

current_utc_timestamp = datetime.now(timezone.utc).timestamp()
print(current_utc_timestamp)