Time strftime() Method in Python 3
The method strftime() converts a tuple or struct_time representing a time as returned by gmtime() or localtime() to a string as specified by
the format argument.
If t is not provided, the current time as returned by
localtime() is used. The format must be a string. An exception ValueError is raised if any
field in t is outside of the allowed range.
Syntax
time.strftime(format[,
t])
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Parameters
·
t - This is the time in 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
#!/usr/bin/python3
import
time
t =
(2018, 02, 23, 09, 43, 14, 5, 54, 0)
t =
time.mktime(t)
print
(time.strftime("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", time.localtime(t)))
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When we run the above program, it produces the
following result-
Feb 23
2018 09:43:14
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