get_time

Returns the current hour and minute.

This returns the current time, which is different from the timestamp of stock prices. For example, if you are running an algorithm every 5 minutes, at 11:30am you will get price data with a timestamp of 11:25am. This function will return 11:30am.

Syntax

def get_time(self):

Returns

Returns the current time as a datetime object.

Raises

• An Exception is raised if there is an error retrieving the time.