In Python how to display current time in readable format

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How can I display the current time as   12 18PM EST on Oct 18  2010   in Python   Thanks

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Take a look at the facilities provided by the time module

You have several conversion functions there.

Edit: see the datetime module for more OOP-like solutions. The time library linked above is kinda imperative.

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First the quick and dirty way  and second the precise way  recognizing daylight s savings or not    import time time ctime      Mon Oct 18 13 35 29 2010  time strftime   l  M p  Z on  b  d   Y       1 36PM EDT on Oct 18  2010  time strftime   l  M p  z on  b  d   Y       1 36PM EST on Oct 18  2010

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By using this code  you ll get your live time zone   import datetime now   datetime datetime now   print   Current date and time      print  now strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S

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import time time strftime   H  M p  Z on  b  d   Y    This may come in handy

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All you need is in the documentation   import time time strftime   X  x  Z    16 08 12 05 08 03 AEST

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You could do something like    gt  gt  gt  from time import gmtime  strftime  gt  gt  gt  strftime   a   d  b  Y  H  M  S  0000   gmtime     Thu  28 Jun 2001 14 17 15  0000    The full doc on the   codes are at http   docs python org library time html

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