How To Get The Current Date Time In Python

1. How to get the current system date time in python.

1. Import the python datetime module.

   >>> import datetime

2. Get the current date time.

   >>> curr_time = datetime.datetime.now()
   >>> 
   >>> curr_time.year
   2021
   >>> curr_time.month
   4
   >>> curr_time.day
   5
   >>> curr_time.hour
   19
   >>> curr_time.minute
   54
   >>> curr_time.second
   22
   >>> curr_time.date()
   datetime.date(2021, 4, 5)

2. How to convert python datetime value to a formatted string and vice versa.

1. The function datetime.datetime.now() returned datetime string format is ( yyyy, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond ).

   >>> datetime.datetime.now()
   datetime.datetime(2021, 4, 5, 19, 59, 10, 165964)

2. We can use the python function strftime() to convert the datetime value to the formatted string that we want.

   >>> curr_time = datetime.datetime.now()
   >>> 
   >>> curr_time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
   '2021-04-05'
   >>> 
   >>> curr_time.strftime("%m/%d")
   '04/05'

3. Convert python datetime value to string example.

   >>> curr_time = datetime.datetime.now()
   >>> 
   >>> datetime.datetime.strftime(curr_time,'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
   '2021-04-05 20:05:33'

4. Convert python datetime string to datetime example.

   >>> import datetime
   >>>
   >>> time_str = '2021-06-06 15:59:58'
   >>> 
   >>> datetime.datetime.strptime(time_str,'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
   datetime.datetime(2021, 6, 6, 15, 59, 58)
   >>>