HOW TO USE PYTHON : date time, Strftime

Date : 30/05/2019

INTRODUCTION

Python date time provides a number of function to deal with date and time .
Before you run the code for datetime, it is important that you import the date time modules.

IMPORT DATE TIME

import date function from date time.

=> from datetime import date

import time function from date time.

=> from datetime import time

import datetime from datetime.

=> from datetime import datetime

PRINT DATE AND TIME USING datetime

from datetime import date
from datetime import time
from datetime import datetime
def main():
    #print today date
    todaydate=datetime.now()
    print (todaydate)
    # Get the current time
    t = datetime.time(datetime.now())
    print "The current time is", t
    
    wd=date.weekday(todaydate)
    
    days= ["sunday","monday","tuesday","wednesday","thursday","friday","saturday"]
    print("Today is day number %d" % wd)
    print("which is a " + days[wd])

if __name__== "__main__":
    main()

OUTPUT:

Format Date and Time with Strftime()

As of now we have learned, how to use datetime and date object in Python.

We will advance a step further and learn how to use a formatting function to format Time and Date.

from datetime import datetime
def main():
   
      now= datetime.now() #get the current date and time
        
      print(now.strftime("%c")) 
      print(now.strftime("%x")) 
      print(now.strftime("%X")) 

      #%I/%H - 12/24 Hour, %M - minute, %S - second, %p - local's AM/PM
      print(now.strftime("%I:%M:%S %p")) # 12-Hour:Minute:Second:AM
      print(now.strftime("%H:%M")) # 24-Hour:Minute

if __name__== "__main__":
    main()

%c – local date and time
%x-local’s date
%X- local’s time

OUTPUT:

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