class TimeCriteria(name, end_time, description='', night_hours=None, **kwargs)

Bases: Criteria

A class for defining criteria for terminating experiments. This should only be subclassed and not used directly.

Criteria testing for a specific finishing time. The finishing time is given as absolute time in the locale of the computer, it is not how the long the measurment continues for.

Parameters:

namestr

Name of the criteria

end_timefloat

Finishing time in seconds since epoch

descriptionstr, optional

A description of the criteria, by default None

night_hourstuple, optional

A tuple of two integers specifying the start and end of night hours. The criteria will always return False during these hours, by default None