from mx.DateTime import now from time import time, clock rounds = range(10000) # Warm-up for i in rounds: x = now() for i in rounds: x = time() c = clock() for i in rounds: x = now() print 'now(): %5.2f sec.' % (clock() - c) c = clock() for i in rounds: x = time() print 'time(): %5.2f sec.' % (clock() - c)