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time.strftime()

formatting

Formats a struct_time into a string using codes such as %Y, %m, %d, %H…; without the second argument it uses the current local time.

Syntax

time.strftime(format[, time_tuple])

It is a module function, not a method: the format comes first and the time second, and that time is a struct_time, not a datetime or a number of seconds. The codes are the same as for datetime.strftime, but struct_time keeps no fractions of a second: %f gives no microseconds here. Without the second argument the result depends on the machine's zone — pass gmtime() for UTC.

Examples

import time
t = time.gmtime(0)
print(time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', t))  # → 1970-01-01 00:00:00
print(time.strftime('%d.%m.%y', t))  # → 01.01.70
print(time.strftime('%H:%M'))  # → ? 14:05 — сейчас, местное время

See also

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