Current Date and Time in Python

This updated guide examines Current Date and Time in Python and organizes the essential facts, background, and practical takeaways in clear American English.

In this article, TipsMake.com will show you how to display the current date and time in Python. We will also use the strftime function () to specify the date and time in different formats.

There are many different ways to do this. In this article we will apply class date and class time in the datetime module.

Example 1: Displays the current date in Python

from datetime import date today = date.today() print("Ngay hien tai:", today)

Result:

Ngay hien tai: 2019-07-11

Here, we import the date class from the datetime module and then use the date.today () method to retrieve the current local date.

Next, we usetodayvariable as the date object and use the strftime () method to create a string that displays dates in different formats from this object.

Example 2: Display the current date in different formats

from datetime import date today = date.today() # dd/mm/YY d1 = today.strftime("%d/%m/%Y") print("d1 =", d1) # Tháng vi?t ??y ?? # Vi?t b?i TipsMake.com d2 = today.strftime("%B %d, %Y") print("d2 =", d2) # mm/dd/y d3 = today.strftime("%m/%d/%y") print("d3 =", d3) # Tháng vi?t t?t d4 = today.strftime("%b-%d-%Y") print("d4 =", d4)

Run the program, the results returned in the following form:

d1 = 11/07/2019 d2 = July 11, 2019 d3 = 07/11/19 d4 = Jul-11-2019

If you want to display both the current date and time, you can use the class datetime of the datetime module .

Example 3: Displays the current date and time in Python

from datetime import datetime # ??i t??ng datetime ch?a ngày và gi? hi?n t?i # vi?t b?i TipsMake.com now = datetime.now() print("now =", now) # dd/mm/YY H:M:S dt_string = now.strftime("%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S") print("Ngay va gio hien tai =", dt_string)

Result:

now = 2019-07-11 17:15:44.166750 Ngay va gio hien tai = 11/07/2019 17:15:44

The example above uses datetime.now () to retrieve the current date and time. Then use the strftime method () to create a string representing the date and time in another format.

Example 4: Displays the current time in Python

from datetime import datetime now = datetime.now() current_time = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S") print("Gio hien tai =", current_time)

Result:

Gio hien tai = 17:31:58

Here, we import the datetime class from the datetime module and then use the now () method to get the datetime object containing the current date and time.

Next, we use the datetime.strftime () method to create a string that displays the current time.

If you need to create a time object containing the current time, you can do the following:

from datetime import datetime now = datetime.now().time() # time object print("Thoi gian hien tai:", now) print("type(now) =", type(now))

Results returned:

Thoi gian hien tai: 09:37:48.952057 type(now) =

Example 5: Displays the current time using the time module

You can also retrieve the current time using the time module.

import time t = time.localtime() current_time = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", t) print(current_time)

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