Introduction to Python Common functions time.strftime ()

Time.strftime () can be used to get the current time, you can format the time as a string, etc.

The Format command is listed below: ( case-sensitive )

%a shorthand for the day of the week
%A full name of the week
%b of the Month
Full name of the%B month
Time string for the date of%c standard
After two digits of the%c year
The day ordinal of a month in%d decimal notation
%d Month/day/year
%e the day ordinal of a month in a two-character field, in decimal notation
%F year-month-day
%g two digits of the year, using week-based
%G years, using week-based years
%h Abbreviated month name
%H 24-Hour Hour
%I 12-Hour Hour
%j decimal indicates the day ordinal of the year
%m the month represented by decimal
%M minutes in a 10 o'clock-hour representation
%n New Line character
%p equivalent display of the local AM or PM
%r 12 hours of time
%R display hours and minutes: hh:mm
%s number of seconds in decimal
%t Horizontal Tab
%T display time seconds: hh:mm:ss
%u days of the week, Monday for the first day (values from 0 to 6, Monday to 0)
%u year of the week, the Sunday as the first day (value from 0 to 53)
%V Week of the year, using week-based
%w Decimal Day of the week (value from 0 to 6, Sunday is 0)
%W Week of the year, Monday as the first day (value from 0 to 53)
Date string for%x standard
Time string for%x standard
%y decimal Year without century (values from 0 to 99)
%Y 10 year with century part
%z,%z the time zone name and returns a null character if the time zone name cannot be obtained.
Percent hundred percent semicolon

 Example: 

>>> from datetime import time, tzinfo >>> class GMT1(tzinfo): ... def utcoffset(self, dt): ... return timedelta(hours=1) ... def dst(self, dt): ... return timedelta(0) ... def tzname(self,dt): ... return "Europe/Prague" ... >>> t = time(12, 10, 30, tzinfo=GMT1()) >>> t # doctest: +ELLIPSIS datetime.time(12, 10, 30, tzinfo=<GMT1 object at 0x...>) >>> gmt = GMT1() >>> t.isoformat() ‘12:10:30+01:00‘ >>> t.dst() datetime.timedelta(0) >>> t.tzname() ‘Europe/Prague‘ >>> t.strftime("%H:%M:%S %Z") ‘12:10:30 Europe/Prague‘

Introduction to Python Common functions time.strftime ()