Python Date/Time

 

• What is Tick?

  Python's time and calendar modules help track dates and times.
  Time intervals are floating-point numbers in units of seconds.
  Particular instants in time are expressed in seconds since 12:00am, January 1, 1970(epoch).
  There is a popular time module available in Python which provides functions for working with times, and for converting between representations. The function time.time() returns the current system time in ticks since 12:00am, January 1, 1970(epoch).

• Example:

  #!/usr/bin/python
  import time; # This is required to include time module.
  
  ticks = time.time()
  print "Number of ticks since 12:00am, January 1, 1970:", ticks
  
  This would produce a result something as follows:
  
  Number of ticks since 12:00am, January 1, 1970: 7186862.73399

• Getting current time -:

  #!/usr/bin/python
  localtime = time.localtime(time.time())
  print "Local current time :", localtime

• Output

  Local current time : (2008, 5, 15, 12, 55, 32, 0, 136, 1)

• Getting formatted time -:

  #!/usr/bin/python
  import time;
  
  localtime = time.asctime( time.localtime(time.time()) )
  print "Local current time :", localtime

• Output

  Local current time : Tue Jan 13 10:17:09 2009

• Getting calendar for a month -:

  #!/usr/bin/python
  import calendar
  
  cal = calendar.month(2008, 1)
  print "Here is the calendar:"
  print cal;

• Output

  Here is the calendar:
  January 2008
  Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
  1 2 3 4 5 6
  7 8 9 10 11 12 13
  14 15 16 17 18 19 20
  21 22 23 24 25 26 27
  28 29 30 31