This post will show some examples using Pythons datetime and time modules.
In a previous post, basic date and time types in Python, I wrote that the datetime and time objects all support a strftime(format) method to create a string representing the time under the control of an explicit format string.
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Date and Time Example
Let’s see what we can do with the datetime and time modules in Python
import time
import datetime
print "Time in seconds since the epoch: %s" %time.time()
print "Current date and time: " , datetime.datetime.now()
print "Or like this: " ,datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%y-%m-%d-%H-%M")
print "Current year: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%Y")
print "Month of year: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%B")
print "Week number of the year: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%W")
print "Weekday of the week: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%w")
print "Day of year: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%j")
print "Day of the month : ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%d")
print "Day of week: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%A")
Output
That will print out something like this:
Time in seconds since the epoch: 1349271346.46 Current date and time: 2012-10-03 15:35:46.461491 Or like this: 12-10-03-15-35 Current year: 2012 Month of year: October Week number of the year: 40 Weekday of the week: 3 Day of year: 277 Day of the month : 03 Day of week: Wednesday
Getting the weekday of a certain date (your pet’s birthday).
import datetime
mydate = datetime.date(1943,3, 13) #year, month, day
print(mydate.strftime("%A"))