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# Example usage: import datetime date_time = datetime.datetime.now() print(date_time) --> '2020-10-03 15:29:54.822751' # From the date_time variable, you can extract the date in various # custom formats with .strftime(), for example: date_time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y") --> '03/10/2020' # dd/mm/yyyy date_time.strftime("%m/%d/%y") --> '10/03/20' # mm/dd/yy date_time.strftime("%Y/%m/%d") --> '2020/10/03' date_time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") --> '2020-10-03' date_time.strftime("%B %d, %Y") --> 'October 03, 2020' # Key for other custom date/time formats: Directive Description Example %a Weekday, short version Wed %A Weekday, full version Wednesday %w Weekday as a number 0-6, 0 is Sunday 3 %d Day of month 01-31 31 %b Month name, short version Dec %B Month name, full version December %m Month as a number 01-12 12 %y Year, short version, without century 18 %Y Year, full version 2018 %H Hour 00-23 17 %I Hour 00-12 05 %p AM/PM PM %M Minute 00-59 41 %S Second 00-59 08 %f Microsecond 000000-999999 548513 %z UTC offset +0100 %Z Timezone CST %j Day number of year 001-366 365 %U Week number of year 00-53 52 %c Local version of date and time Mon Dec 31 17:41:00 2018 %x Local version of date 12/31/18 %X Local version of time 17:41:00 %% A % character %
