Python Time Strftime() Method

Description

Pythom time technique strftime() exchanges a tuple or struct_time in lieu of a time as revisited by gmtime() or localtime() to a string as particular by the set-up argument. If t is not offered, the present time as revisited by localtime() is used. The format must be a string. An exemption ValueError is hoisted if any ground int is external of the authorized range.

Syntax

Following is the syntax for strftime() method:

time.strftime(format[, t])

Parameters

• t − This is the time in a number of seconds to be formatted.
• format − This is the directive which would be used to format given time. The following directives can be embedded in the format string

Directive

• %a - abbreviated weekday name
• %A - full weekday name
• %b - abbreviated month name
• %B - full month name
• %c - preferred date and time representation
• %C - century number (the year divided by 100, range 00 to 99)
• %d - day of the month (01 to 31)
• %D - same as %m/%d/%y
• %e - day of the month (1 to 31)
• %g - like %G, but without the century
• %G - 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V).
• %h - same as %b
• %H - hour, using a 24-hour clock (00 to 23)
• %I - hour, using a 12-hour clock (01 to 12)
• %j - day of the year (001 to 366)
• %m - month (01 to 12)
• %M - minute
• %n - newline character
• %p - either am or pm according to the given time value
• %r - time in a.m. and p.m. notation
• %R - time in 24 hour notation
• %S - second
• %t - tab character
• %T - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S
• %u - weekday as a number (1 to 7), Monday=1. Warning: In Sun Solaris Sunday=1
• %U - week number of the current year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week
• %V - The ISO 8601 week number of the current year (01 to 53), where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the current year, and with Monday as the first day of the week
• %W - week number of the current year, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week
• %w - day of the week as a decimal, Sunday=0
• %x - preferred date representation without the time
• %X - preferred time representation without the date
• %y - year without a century (range 00 to 99)
• %Y - year including the century
• %Z or %z - time zone or name or abbreviation
• %% - a literal % character

Return Value

This method does not return any value.

Example

The following example shows the usage of strftime() method.

#!/usr/bin/python
import time

t = (2009, 2, 17, 17, 3, 38, 1, 48, 0)
t = time.mktime(t)
print time.strftime("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", time.gmtime(t))

When we run the above program, it produces the following result:

Feb 18 2009 00:03:38

Here at Intellinuts, we have created a complete Python tutorial for Beginners to get started in Python.