Time strftime() Method

Description

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. The format must be a string. An exception ValueError is raised if any field in "t" is outside of the allowed range.

Syntax

Following is the syntax for strftime() method −

time.strftime(format[, t])

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.

Directives

The following directives can be embedded in the format string −

• %a - abbreviated weekday name

• %A - full weekday name

• %b - abbreviated month name

• %B - full month name

• %c - preferred date and time representation

• %C - century number (the year divided by 100, range 00 to 99)

• %d - day of the month (01 to 31)

• %D - same as %m/%d/%y

• %e - day of the month (1 to 31)

• %g - like %G, but without the century

• %G - 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number (see %V).

• %h - same as %b

• %H - hour, using a 24-hour clock (00 to 23)

• %I - hour, using a 12-hour clock (01 to 12)

• %j - day of the year (001 to 366)

• %m - month (01 to 12)

• %M - minute

• %n - newline character

• %p - either am or pm according to the given time value

• %r - time in a.m. and p.m. notation

• %R - time in 24 hour notation

• %S - second

• %t - tab character

• %T - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S

• %u - weekday as a number (1 to 7), Monday=1. Warning: In Sun Solaris Sunday=1

• %U - week number of the current year, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week

• %V - 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

• %W - week number of the current year, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week

• %w - day of the week as a decimal, Sunday=0

• %x - preferred date representation without the time

• %X - preferred time representation without the date

• %y - year without a century (range 00 to 99)

• %Y - year including the century

• %Z or %z - time zone or name or abbreviation

• %% - a literal % character

Return Value

This method does not return any value.

Example

The following example shows the usage of strftime() method.

import time
t = (2023, 4, 20, 10, 39, 45, 1, 48, 0)
t = time.mktime(t)
print (time.strftime("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", time.localtime(t)))

When we run the above program, it produces the following output −

Apr 20 2023 10:39:45

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