Datetime
Programs often include dates and time to perform interactive greetings, calculate age, stamping backups, etc. Here is how to use this class.
import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()
# show the day and month using strftime() function
print(now.strftime(%A%m))
For those who are familiar with Linux datetime directives, these symbols will seem very familiar:
| Directive | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| % | Init command character. When precedes itself, becomes escape character. | %% => % |
| %a | Abbreviated weekday | Wed |
| %A | Weekday | Wednesday |
| %b | Abbreviated month name | Jan |
| %B | Month name | January |
| %c | Copy local date and time | Fri Apr 19 13:33:17 2019 |
| %d | Day of month 01-31 | 30 |
| %f | Ticks value up to 999999 | 548513 |
| %H | Hour 00-23 (00 is 23 is 2400 hours) | 05 |
| %I | Hour 00-12 (up to 1300 hours) | 05 |
| %j | Day number of year 001-366 | 365 |
| %k | hour, 24-hour, leading space as needed, 0-23 | _5 |
| %l | hour, 12-hour format 1-12 | 12 |
| %m | Month as a number 01-12 | 12 |
| %M | Minute 00-59 | 41 |
| %p | AM/PM | PM |
| %S | Second 00-59 | 08 |
| %U | Week number of year, Sunday as the first day of week, 00-53 | 52 |
| %w | Weekday as a number 0-6, 0 is Sunday | 3 |
| %W | Week number of year, Monday as the first day of week, 00-53 | 52 |
| %x | Local version of date | 12/31/18 |
| %X | Local version of time | 17:41:00 |
| %y | Year, short version, without century | 18 |
| %Y | Year, full version | 2018 |
| %z | UTC offset | +0100 |
| %Z | Timezone | CST |
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