No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
about-time has 3.6M monthly downloads and 70 GitHub stars. Version 4.2.2 supports Python <4,>=3.8, first published in 2018.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2025.
It is used by 18 tracked packages, including bikeshed, liblaf-grapes and minet.
GitHub topics include measure, time and timing.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 3 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
32
Adoption
60
Community
10
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
344 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,618,498
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
•
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
3,618,498
Stars
70
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
•
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
106,252
Month daily avg
120,617
Momentum
-11.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4,>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
•
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
349 days ago
Total releases
19
Releases/year
2.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
3
Monthly downloads
3,618,498
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
•
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
25
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
75.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
46.3K
macOS
3.3K
Windows
1.7K
Python Versions
3.12
33.5%
16.0K
3.11
33.4%
16.0K
3.10
15.1%
7.3K
3.13
11.7%
5.6K
3.9
6.4%
3.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
35.5K
US
2.
DE
3.3K
DE
3.
IE
3.0K
IE
4.
NL
1.5K
NL
5.
SG
969
SG
6.
CA
615
CA
7.
GB
610
GB
8.
FR
557
FR
9.
IN
535
IN
10.
CN
463
CN
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
August 21, 2018
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
11 months ago
Latest Version
4.2.2
Total Releases
19
Contributors
3
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh