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. 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])
Directive
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%a
|
abbreviated weekday name |
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%A
|
full weekday name |
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%b
|
abbreviated month name |
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%B
|
full month name |
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%c
|
preferred date and time representation |
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%C
|
century number (the year divided by 100, range 00 to 99) |
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%d
|
day of the month (01 to 31) |
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%D
|
same as %m/%d/%y |
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%e
|
day of the month (1 to 31) |
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%g
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like %G, but without the century |
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%G
|
4 digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V). |
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%h
|
same as %b |
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%H
|
hour, using a 24 hour clock (00 to 23) |
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%I
|
hour, using a 12 hour clock (01 to 12) |
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%j
|
day of the year (001 to 366) |
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%m
|
month (01 to 12) |
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%M
|
minute |
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%n
|
newline character |
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%p
|
either am or pm according to the given time value |
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%r
|
time in a.m. and p.m. notation |
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%R
|
time in 24 hour notation |
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%S
|
second |
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%t
|
tab character |
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%T
|
current time, equal to %H:%M:%S |
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%u
|
weekday as a number (1 to 7), Monday=1. Warning: In Sun Solaris Sunday=1 |
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%U
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week number of the current year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week |
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%V
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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 |
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%W
|
week number of the current year, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week |
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%w
|
day of the week as a decimal, Sunday=0 |
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%x
|
preferred date representation without the time |
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%X
|
preferred time representation without the date |
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%y
|
year without a century (range 00 to 99) |
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%Y
|
year including the century |
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%Z or %z
|
time zone or name or abbreviation |
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%%
|
a literal % character |
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 |
Return Value
This method does not return any value.
Example
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))
Output
Feb 18 2009 01:03:38