How do I find date for with hours?

Question

In python, I want to find the date and time and put it inside of a string.

I have tried this:

example = datetime.datetime.now()

print(example)

However it returns the date with the miliseconds. What do I do if i don't want the miliseconds included. Just the date and time formatted like this:

YYYY-MM-DD 00:00:00

https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.date.strftime — Giacomo Alzetta, Nov 04 '19 at 16:37
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Duplicate? [Convert datetime object to a String of date only in Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10624937/convert-datetime-object-to-a-string-of-date-only-in-python) — Jab, Nov 04 '19 at 16:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 04 '19 at 16:44

You need to format the datetime output using this:

datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M:%S')

This will give you Hours:Minutes:Seconds

To get the format as per your requirements use:

datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

This will give you date time in YYYY-MM-DD 00:00:00 format without milliseconds.

My output: 2019-11-04 22:09:06

To see more directives: Link

Link says:

You can get the formatted date and time using strftime function. It accepts a format string that you can use to get your desired output

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 04 '19 at 16:45

If I understand your question corretly, somethinig like this should work for you.

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
date = now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")
print("date:",date)

It came from here. There are other formatting examples in that post.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 04 '19 at 16:46

Datetime's strftime functionality does exactly what you're looking for.

There is some overview and explanation here:

print(example.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')) will give you the right answer.

I would also look at the arrow library, as it offers a nice API to work with time.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '19 at 16:47

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Try this:

import datetime
example = datetime.datetime.now()
print(example.strftime("%Y-%d-%m %H:%M:%S"))

answered Nov 04 '19 at 16:47

Umesh Jadhav

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