Date and Time now

Getting the latest date and time in Python

Use the now () command of the date-time python cmd. The following example shows different ways to get the actual date and time in the PHP file. The following are sample date and time retrieval scenarios that have been tried with Firefox 2.7 and Firefox 3.5 on Linux systems. The now( ) command defaults to returning the result in the following format: YYYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS:MS.

You can use the example below to get the actual date and time in the Python scripts and display the results on the monitor. Or you can get the date and time attributes. If you want to get e.g. only the actual year or the actual months or the actual date etc., just make a getDateTime2.py with the following contents, which will help you to get an idea how to get a certain attributes.

If you need the date and time in a particular date and time formats, you can also specify an instruction to reformat the date and time. The example has some example formatted date and time issues. The following is a series of instructions that you can use to reformat the date and time in your copy of Python. %aLocale's shortened day of the week name.

%ALocale's full day of the week name. %bLocale's shortened name of the months. %BLocale's full name of the current year. %cLocale's appropriate date and time notation. %dday of the monthly as hexadecimal number[01,31]. %Hour (24-hour clock) as hexadecimal number[00,23]. %IHour (12-hour clock) as hexadecimal number[01,12]. %jDay of the year as hexadecimal number[001.366].

%mmonth as ordinal number[01,12]. %MMinute as hexadecimal number[00,59]. %pLocale's equivalence of either AM or PM. %second as number of decimals[00,61]. %Weekly number of the year (Sunday as first weekday ) as hexadecimal number[00,53]. Every single preceeding Sunday in a new year is counted as weekly 0. %wWeekday as numeric value[0(Sunday),6].

%Weekly number of the year (Monday as first weekday ) as hexadecimal number[00,53]. Every few business nights in a new year that precede the first Monday are counted as weeks 0. %xLocale's reasonable date notation. %XLocale's appropriate time notation. %year without age as a hexadecimal number[00,99].

%Year with cent as hexadecimal number. %zTime Time Zone offset indicative of a +HMM or -HHMM shape plus or minus time differential of UTC/GMT where HR represent hourly decimals and MIN represent decimals[-23:59, +23:59]. %ZTTtime area name ( no character if there is no time area).