Programming

Date and Time in Python

Example Code

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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

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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
^