#pythonTime

python_time

    import time, datetime
    length=5  # 5 minutes from now
    
    start_time = datetime.datetime.strftime(datetime.datetime.now(), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
    stop_time = datetime.datetime.strftime(datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(minutes=int(length)), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
    epoch_start_local = int(time.mktime(datetime.datetime.now().timetuple()))
    epoch_start_utc = int(time.mktime(datetime.datetime.utcnow().timetuple()))
    epoch_stop_local = int(time.mktime(datetime.datetime.timetuple(datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(minutes=length))))
    epoch_stop_utc = int(time.mktime(datetime.datetime.timetuple(datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(minutes=5))))
    
    # you can clean this up if you only import 'datetime' and 'timedelta' from datetime