Python program to display the current date and time

Python program to print the current date and time

Python Dates

A date in Python is not a data type of its own, but we can import a module named datetime to work with dates as date objects.

example :-

import datetime

x = datetime.datetime.now()
print(x)

The strftime() Method

The datetime object has a method for formatting date objects into readable strings.

The method is called strftime(), and takes one parameter, format, to specify the format of the returned string:

Python program to display the current date and time

import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.now()
print ("Current date and time : ")
print (now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))

output:-

Current date and time : 

2022-01-03 13:46:50

>>> 

Get the current date and time

from datetime import datetime

now = datetime.now()
 
print("now =", now)

dt_string = now.strftime("%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S")
print("date and time =", dt_string)	

output:-

now = 2022-01-03 13:50:59.575978

date and time = 03/01/2022 13:50:59

>>> 

Python get current date without time

import datetime
now = datetime.date.today()
currentDate = datetime.datetime.strptime('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y').date()
print(currentDate)

output:-

2022-01-03 

>>> 

Python get current time in seconds

import time
milliseconds = int(round(time.time() * 1000))
print(milliseconds)

output:-

1641198498286
>>>