How to print the current time in the format Day, Date Month Year HH:MM:SS?

Question

How to print the current time in the format Day, Date Month Year HH:MM:SS

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:37:01 .

And then, convert this timestamp to epoch seconds & vice-versa.

Solution

datetime module does all the job

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%a, %d %B %Y %H:%M:%S")
'Tue, 29 August 2017 03:04:21'

Comments

[AChampion]

Have you explored the datetime module?

[Pavan Chandaka]

docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html. Please walk through this and help yourself

[Marki555]

%I is time in 12hour AM/PM format. To get hours in 24h format, use %H.

[Vijay Kumar]

how do you get the same but in UTC, this one is printing local time

[Panagiotis Simakis]

@VijayKumar datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime("%a, %d %B %Y %H:%M:%S") for UTC