python

Date and Time

Python is very useful in case of Date and Time. We can easily retrieve current date and time using Python.

Retrieve Time

To retrieve current time a predefined function localtime() is used. localtime() receives a parameter time.time() . Here,

time is a module,

time() is a function that returns the current system time in number of ticks since 12:00 am , January 1,1970. It is known as epoch.

Tick is simply a floating point number in seconds since epoch.

1. import time;  
2. localtime = time.localtime(time.time())  
3. print "Current Time is :", localtime

1. import calendar  
2. calendar.prcal(2017)  

1. import calendar  
2. print (calendar.isleap(2000))

1. import calendar  
2. print (calendar.monthcalendar(2014,6))

1. import calendar  
2. print (calendar.prmonth(2014,6) )

1. import calendar  
2. print "Current month is:"  
3. cal = calendar.month(2014, 6)  
4. print (cal)  

1. import time  
2. t = (2014, 6, 26, 17, 3, 38, 1, 48, 0)  
3. t = time.mktime(t)  
4. print (time.strftime("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", time.gmtime(t)))