How to get the current time in Python

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What is the module method used to get the current time

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From Python 3 9  the zoneinfo module can be used for getting timezones rather than using a third party library  To get the current time in a particular timezone  from datetime import datetime from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo  datetime now tz ZoneInfo  quot Europe Amsterdam quot

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from time import ctime     Day  Mon Tue     print ctime   split   0     Month  Jan  Feb     print ctime   split   1     Date  1 2     print ctime   split   2     HH MM SS print ctime   split   3     Year  2018     print ctime   split   4    When you call ctime   it will convert seconds to string in format  Day Month Date HH MM SS Year   for example   Wed January 17 16 53 22 2018    then you call split   method that will make a list from your string   Wed   Jan   17   16 56 45   2018    default delimeter is space    Brackets are used to  select  wanted argument in list   One should call just one code line  One should not call them like I did  that was just an example  because in some cases you will get different values  rare but not impossible cases

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This is so simple  Try   import datetime date time   str datetime datetime now    date   date time split   0  time   date time split   1

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If you just want the current timestamp in ms  for example  to measure execution time   you can also use the  timeit  module   import timeit start time   timeit default timer   do stuff you want to measure   end time   timeit default timer   print  Elapsed time      format end time - start time

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Get current date time attributes   import datetime  currentDT   datetime datetime now    print   Current Year is   d    currentDT year  print   Current Month is   d    currentDT month  print   Current Day is   d    currentDT day  print   Current Hour is   d    currentDT hour  print   Current Minute is   d    currentDT minute  print   Current Second is   d    currentDT second  print   Current Microsecond is   d    currentDT microsecond       usr bin python import time   ticks   time time   print  Number of ticks since  12 00am  Jan 1  1970     ticks

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First import the datetime module from datetime  from datetime import datetime   Then print the current time as  yyyy-mm-dd hh mm ss   print str datetime now      To get only the time in the form  hh mm ss  where ss stands for the full number of seconds plus the fraction of seconds elapsed  just do   print str datetime now   11      Converting the datetime now   to a string yields an answer that is in the format that feels like the regular DATES AND TIMES we are used to

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The time module can import all sorts of time stuff  inculduing sleep and other types of stuff including - the current time type  import time time strftime   T   time localtime      The output should look like this  05 46 33 11 22 56 13 44 55 22 33 44 00 00 00

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isoformat   is in the documentation  but not yet here  this is mighty similar to  Ray Vega s answer     gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   isoformat    2013-06-24T20 35 55 982000

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This question doesn t need a new answer just for the sake of it     a shiny new-ish toy module  however  is enough justification   That being the Pendulum library  which appears to do the sort of things which arrow attempted  except without the inherent flaws and bugs which beset arrow   For instance  the answer to the original question    gt  gt  gt  import pendulum  gt  gt  gt  print pendulum now    2018-08-14T05 29 28 315802 10 00  gt  gt  gt  print pendulum now  utc    2018-08-13T19 29 35 051023 00 00   There s a lot of standards which need addressing  including multiple RFCs and ISOs  to worry about   Ever get them mixed up  not to worry  take a little look into dir pendulum constants  There s a bit more than RFC and ISO formats there  though   When we say local  though what do we mean   Well I mean    gt  gt  gt  print pendulum now   timezone name  Australia Melbourne  gt  gt  gt    Presumably most of the rest of you mean somewhere else   And on it goes   Long story short  Pendulum attempts to do for date and time what requests did for HTTP   It s worth consideration  particularly for both its ease of use and extensive documentation

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import datetime date time   str datetime datetime now    split   date time   date time   date will print date and time will print time

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Do  from time import time  t   time      t - float number  good for time interval measurement    There is some difference for Unix and Windows platforms

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Do  from time import time  t   time      t - float number  good for time interval measurement    There is some difference for Unix and Windows platforms

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gt  gt  gt  from time import gmtime  strftime  gt  gt  gt  strftime   a   d  b  Y  X  0000   gmtime     Tue  06 Jan 2009 04 54 56  0000    That outputs the current GMT in the specified format  There is also a localtime   method    This page has more details

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from datetime import datetime datetime now   strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S     For this example  the output will be like this   2013-09-18 11 16 32   Here is the list of strftime directives

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Using pandas to get the current time  kind of overkilling the problem at hand   import pandas as pd print pd datetime now    print pd datetime now   date    print pd datetime now   year  print pd datetime now   month  print pd datetime now   day  print pd datetime now   hour  print pd datetime now   minute  print pd datetime now   second  print pd datetime now   microsecond    Output   2017-09-22 12 44 56 092642 2017-09-22 2017 9 22 12 44 56 92693

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By default  now   function returns output in the YYYY-MM-DD HH MM SS MS format  Use the below sample script to get the current date and time in a Python script and print results on the screen  Create file getDateTime1 py with the below content   import datetime  currentDT   datetime datetime now   print  str currentDT     The output looks like below   2018-03-01 17 03 46 759624

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The following is what I use to get the time without having to format  Some people don t like the split method  but it is useful here   from time import ctime print ctime   split   3    It will print in HH MM SS format

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Try the arrow module from http   crsmithdev com arrow    import arrow arrow now     Or the UTC version   arrow utcnow     To change its output  add  format     arrow utcnow   format  YYYY-MM-DD HH mm ss ZZ     For a specific timezone   arrow now  US Pacific     An hour ago   arrow utcnow   replace hours -1    Or if you want the gist   arrow get  2013-05-11T21 23 58 970460 00 00   humanize    gt  gt  gt   2 years ago

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Use    gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   datetime datetime 2009  1  6  15  8  24  78915    gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime now    2009-01-06 15 08 24 789150   And just the time    gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   time   datetime time 15  8  24  78915    gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime now   time    15 08 24 789150   See the documentation for more information   To save typing  you can import the datetime object from the datetime module    gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime   Then remove the leading datetime  from all of the above

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isoformat   is in the documentation  but not yet here  this is mighty similar to  Ray Vega s answer     gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   isoformat    2013-06-24T20 35 55 982000

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Why not ask the U S  Naval Observatory  the official timekeeper of the United States Navy   import requests from lxml import html  page   requests get  http   tycho usno navy mil cgi-bin timer pl   tree   html fromstring page content  print tree xpath    html  body  h3  pre text     1     If you live in the D C  area  like me  the latency might not be too bad

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You can  try the following import datetime  now   datetime datetime now   print now   or import datetime  now   datetime datetime now   print now strftime  quot  Y- b- d   A  I  M  S quot

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if you are using numpy already then directly you can use numpy datetime64    function   import numpy as np str np datetime64  now      for only date   str np datetime64  today      or  if you are using pandas already then you can use pandas to datetime   function  import pandas as pd str pd to datetime  now      or   str pd to datetime  today

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Use    gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   datetime datetime 2009  1  6  15  8  24  78915    gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime now    2009-01-06 15 08 24 789150   And just the time    gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   time   datetime time 15  8  24  78915    gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime now   time    15 08 24 789150   See the documentation for more information   To save typing  you can import the datetime object from the datetime module    gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime   Then remove the leading datetime  from all of the above

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You can do so using ctime     from time import time  ctime t   time   ctime t    output   Sat Sep 14 21 27 08 2019  These outputs are different because the timestamp returned by ctime   depends on your geographical location

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You can use this function to get the time  unfortunately it doesn t say AM or PM    def gettime        from datetime import datetime     return   str datetime now     split      1   split      0    To get the hours  minutes  seconds and milliseconds to merge later  you can use these functions   Hour   def gethour        from datetime import datetime     return    str datetime now     split      1   split      0   split      0    Minute   def getminute        from datetime import datetime     return    str datetime now     split      1   split      0   split      1    Second   def getsecond        from datetime import datetime     return    str datetime now     split      1   split      0   split      2    Millisecond   def getmillisecond        from datetime import datetime     return  str datetime now     split      1

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datetime now   returns the current time as a naive datetime object that represents time in the local timezone  That value may be ambiguous e g   during DST transitions   fall back    To avoid ambiguity either UTC timezone should be used   from datetime import datetime  utc time   datetime utcnow   print utc time    - gt  2014-12-22 22 48 59 916417   Or a timezone-aware object that has the corresponding timezone info attached  Python 3 2     from datetime import datetime  timezone  now   datetime now timezone utc  astimezone   print now    - gt  2014-12-23 01 49 25 837541 03 00

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Using pandas to get the current time  kind of overkilling the problem at hand   import pandas as pd print pd datetime now    print pd datetime now   date    print pd datetime now   year  print pd datetime now   month  print pd datetime now   day  print pd datetime now   hour  print pd datetime now   minute  print pd datetime now   second  print pd datetime now   microsecond    Output   2017-09-22 12 44 56 092642 2017-09-22 2017 9 22 12 44 56 92693

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Similar to Harley s answer  but use the str   function for a quick-n-dirty  slightly more human readable format    gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  str datetime now     2011-05-03 17 45 35 177000

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from time import ctime     Day  Mon Tue     print ctime   split   0     Month  Jan  Feb     print ctime   split   1     Date  1 2     print ctime   split   2     HH MM SS print ctime   split   3     Year  2018     print ctime   split   4    When you call ctime   it will convert seconds to string in format  Day Month Date HH MM SS Year   for example   Wed January 17 16 53 22 2018    then you call split   method that will make a list from your string   Wed   Jan   17   16 56 45   2018    default delimeter is space    Brackets are used to  select  wanted argument in list   One should call just one code line  One should not call them like I did  that was just an example  because in some cases you will get different values  rare but not impossible cases

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You can use time strftime          gt  gt  gt  from time import gmtime  strftime  gt  gt  gt  strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S   gmtime     2009-01-05 22 14 39

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I want to get the time with milliseconds  A simple way to get them   import time  datetime  print datetime datetime now   time                              11 20 08 272239    Or in a more complicated way print datetime datetime now   time   isoformat                  11 20 08 272239 print datetime datetime now   time   strftime   H  M  S  f      11 20 08 272239    But do not use this  print time strftime   H  M  S  f   time localtime     str       11 20 08  f   But I want only milliseconds  right  The shortest way to get them   import time  time strftime   H  M  S   time localtime         d     time time     1   1000    11 34 23 751   Add or remove zeroes from the last multiplication to adjust number of decimal points  or just   def get time str decimal points 3       return time strftime   H  M  S   time localtime         d     time time     1   10  decimal points

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import datetime x   datetime datetime now   print x   I found this earlier this year while I was learning python on W3Schools  I highly recommend you using w3schools for small doubts  -

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You can use time strftime          gt  gt  gt  from time import gmtime  strftime  gt  gt  gt  strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S   gmtime     2009-01-05 22 14 39

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Method1  Getting Current Date and Time from system datetime  The datetime module supplies classes for manipulating dates and times      Code   from datetime import datetime date  print  Date    str date today   year   -  str date today   month   -  str date today   day   print  Year    str date today   year   print  Month    str date today   month   print  Day    str date today   day    n    print  Time    str datetime today   hour      str datetime today   minute      str datetime today   second   print  Hour    str datetime today   hour   print  Minute    str datetime today   minute   print  Second    str datetime today   second   print  MilliSecond    str datetime today   microsecond        Output will be like   Date  2020-4-18 Year  2020 Month  4 Day  18  Time  19 30 5 Hour  19 Minute  30 Second  5 MilliSecond  836071   Method2  Getting Current Date and Time if Network is available  urllib package helps us to handle the url s that means webpages  Here we collects data from the webpage http   just-the-time appspot com  and parses dateime from the webpage using the package dateparser      Code   from urllib request import urlopen import dateparser  time url   urlopen u http   just-the-time appspot com    datetime   time url read   decode  utf-8   errors  ignore   split       -1  date   datetime 0  time   datetime 1   print  Date    str date   print  Year    str date split  -   0    print  Month    str date split  -   1    print  Day    str date split  -   2     n    print  Time    str time   print  Hour    str time split      0    print  Minute    str time split      1    print  Second    str time split      2         Output will be like   Date  2020-04-18 Year  2020 Month  04 Day  18  Time  14 17 10 Hour  14 Minute  17 Second  10   Method3  Getting Current Date and Time from Local Time of the Machine  Python s time module provides a function for getting local time from the number of seconds elapsed since the epoch called localtime    ctime   function takes seconds passed since epoch as an argument and returns a string representing local time      Code   from time import time  ctime datetime   ctime time    split       print  Date    str datetime 4    -  str datetime 1    -  str datetime 2    print  Year    str datetime 4    print  Month    str datetime 1    print  Day    str datetime 2    print  Week Day    str datetime 0     n    print  Time    str datetime 3    print  Hour    str datetime 3   split      0   print  Minute    str datetime 3   split      1   print  Second    str datetime 3   split      2        Output will be like   Date  2020-Apr-18 Year  2020 Month  Apr Day  18 Week Day  Sat  Time  19 30 20 Hour  19 Minute  30 Second  20

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Do  from time import time  t   time      t - float number  good for time interval measurement    There is some difference for Unix and Windows platforms

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gt  gt  gt  import datetime  time  gt  gt  gt  time   time strftime   H  M  S  MS   time localtime     gt  gt  gt  print time  00 21 38 20S

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Because no one has mentioned it yet  and this is something I ran into recently    a pytz timezone s fromutc   method combined with datetime s utcnow   is the best way I ve found to get a useful current time  and date  in any timezone   from datetime import datetime  import pytz   JST   pytz timezone  Asia Tokyo     local time   JST fromutc datetime utcnow      If all you want is the time  you can then get that with local time time

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This question doesn t need a new answer just for the sake of it     a shiny new-ish toy module  however  is enough justification   That being the Pendulum library  which appears to do the sort of things which arrow attempted  except without the inherent flaws and bugs which beset arrow   For instance  the answer to the original question    gt  gt  gt  import pendulum  gt  gt  gt  print pendulum now    2018-08-14T05 29 28 315802 10 00  gt  gt  gt  print pendulum now  utc    2018-08-13T19 29 35 051023 00 00   There s a lot of standards which need addressing  including multiple RFCs and ISOs  to worry about   Ever get them mixed up  not to worry  take a little look into dir pendulum constants  There s a bit more than RFC and ISO formats there  though   When we say local  though what do we mean   Well I mean    gt  gt  gt  print pendulum now   timezone name  Australia Melbourne  gt  gt  gt    Presumably most of the rest of you mean somewhere else   And on it goes   Long story short  Pendulum attempts to do for date and time what requests did for HTTP   It s worth consideration  particularly for both its ease of use and extensive documentation

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The quickest way is    gt  gt  gt  import time  gt  gt  gt  time strftime   Y m d    20130924

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First import the datetime module from datetime  from datetime import datetime   Then print the current time as  yyyy-mm-dd hh mm ss   print str datetime now      To get only the time in the form  hh mm ss  where ss stands for the full number of seconds plus the fraction of seconds elapsed  just do   print str datetime now   11      Converting the datetime now   to a string yields an answer that is in the format that feels like the regular DATES AND TIMES we are used to

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This is what I ended up going with     gt  gt  gt from time import strftime  gt  gt  gt strftime   m  d  Y  H  M   01 09 2015 13 11   Also  this table is a necessary reference for choosing the appropriate format codes to get the date formatted just the way you want it  from Python  datetime  documentation here

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gt  gt  gt  from time import gmtime  strftime  gt  gt  gt  strftime   a   d  b  Y  X  0000   gmtime     Tue  06 Jan 2009 04 54 56  0000    That outputs the current GMT in the specified format  There is also a localtime   method    This page has more details

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gt  gt  gt  import datetime  time  gt  gt  gt  time   time strftime   H  M  S  MS   time localtime     gt  gt  gt  print time  00 21 38 20S

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The following is what I use to get the time without having to format  Some people don t like the split method  but it is useful here   from time import ctime print ctime   split   3    It will print in HH MM SS format

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How do I get the current time in Python   The time module The time module provides functions that tell us the time in  quot seconds since the epoch quot  as well as other utilities  import time  Unix Epoch Time This is the format you should get timestamps in for saving in databases  It is a simple floating-point number that can be converted to an integer  It is also good for arithmetic in seconds  as it represents the number of seconds since Jan 1  1970  00 00 00  and it is memory light relative to the other representations of time we ll be looking at next   gt  gt  gt  time time   1424233311 771502  This timestamp does not account for leap-seconds  so it s not linear - leap seconds are ignored  So while it is not equivalent to the international UTC standard  it is close  and therefore quite good for most cases of record-keeping  This is not ideal for human scheduling  however  If you have a future event you wish to take place at a certain point in time  you ll want to store that time with a string that can be parsed into a datetime object or a serialized datetime object  these will be described later   time ctime You can also represent the current time in the way preferred by your operating system  which means it can change when you change your system preferences  so don t rely on this to be standard across all systems  as I ve seen others expect   This is typically user friendly  but doesn t typically result in strings one can sort chronologically   gt  gt  gt  time ctime    Tue Feb 17 23 21 56 2015   You can hydrate timestamps into human readable form with ctime as well   gt  gt  gt  time ctime 1424233311 771502   Tue Feb 17 23 21 51 2015   This conversion is also not good for record-keeping  except in text that will only be parsed by humans - and with improved Optical Character Recognition and Artificial Intelligence  I think the number of these cases will diminish   datetime module The datetime module is also quite useful here   gt  gt  gt  import datetime  datetime datetime now The datetime now is a class method that returns the current time  It uses the time localtime without the timezone info  if not given  otherwise see timezone aware below   It has a representation  which would allow you to recreate an equivalent object  echoed on the shell  but when printed  or coerced to a str   it is in human readable  and nearly ISO  format  and the lexicographic sort is equivalent to the chronological sort   gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   datetime datetime 2015  2  17  23  43  49  94252   gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime now    2015-02-17 23 43 51 782461  datetime s utcnow You can get a datetime object in UTC time  a global standard  by doing this   gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime utcnow   datetime datetime 2015  2  18  4  53  28  394163   gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime utcnow    2015-02-18 04 53 31 783988  UTC is a time standard that is nearly equivalent to the GMT timezone   While GMT and UTC do not change for Daylight Savings Time  their users may switch to other timezones  like British Summer Time  during the Summer   datetime timezone aware However  none of the datetime objects we ve created so far can be easily converted to various timezones  We can solve that problem with the pytz module   gt  gt  gt  import pytz  gt  gt  gt  then   datetime datetime now pytz utc   gt  gt  gt  then datetime datetime 2015  2  18  4  55  58  753949  tzinfo  lt UTC gt    Equivalently  in Python 3 we have the timezone class with a utc timezone instance attached  which also makes the object timezone aware  but to convert to another timezone without the handy pytz module is left as an exercise to the reader    gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now datetime timezone utc  datetime datetime 2015  2  18  22  31  56  564191  tzinfo datetime timezone utc   And we see we can easily convert to timezones from the original UTC object   gt  gt  gt  print then  2015-02-18 04 55 58 753949 00 00  gt  gt  gt  print then astimezone pytz timezone  US Eastern     2015-02-17 23 55 58 753949-05 00  You can also make a naive datetime object aware with the pytz timezone localize method  or by replacing the tzinfo attribute  with replace  this is done blindly   but these are more last resorts than best practices   gt  gt  gt  pytz utc localize datetime datetime utcnow    datetime datetime 2015  2  18  6  6  29  32285  tzinfo  lt UTC gt    gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime utcnow   replace tzinfo pytz utc  datetime datetime 2015  2  18  6  9  30  728550  tzinfo  lt UTC gt    The pytz module allows us to make our datetime objects timezone aware and convert the times to the hundreds of timezones available in the pytz module  One could ostensibly serialize this object for UTC time and store that in a database  but it would require far more memory and be more prone to error than simply storing the Unix Epoch time  which I demonstrated first  The other ways of viewing times are much more error-prone  especially when dealing with data that may come from different time zones  You want there to be no confusion as to which timezone a string or serialized datetime object was intended for  If you re displaying the time with Python for the user  ctime works nicely  not in a table  it doesn t typically sort well   but perhaps in a clock  However  I personally recommend  when dealing with time in Python  either using Unix time  or a timezone aware UTC datetime object

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Get current date time attributes   import datetime  currentDT   datetime datetime now    print   Current Year is   d    currentDT year  print   Current Month is   d    currentDT month  print   Current Day is   d    currentDT day  print   Current Hour is   d    currentDT hour  print   Current Minute is   d    currentDT minute  print   Current Second is   d    currentDT second  print   Current Microsecond is   d    currentDT microsecond       usr bin python import time   ticks   time time   print  Number of ticks since  12 00am  Jan 1  1970     ticks

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The time module can import all sorts of time stuff  inculduing sleep and other types of stuff including - the current time type  import time time strftime   T   time localtime      The output should look like this  05 46 33 11 22 56 13 44 55 22 33 44 00 00 00

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By default  now   function returns output in the YYYY-MM-DD HH MM SS MS format  Use the below sample script to get the current date and time in a Python script and print results on the screen  Create file getDateTime1 py with the below content   import datetime  currentDT   datetime datetime now   print  str currentDT     The output looks like below   2018-03-01 17 03 46 759624

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we can accomplish that Using datetime module   gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  now   datetime now    get a datetime object containing current date and time  gt  gt  gt  current time   now strftime   H  M  S    created a string representing current time  gt  gt  gt  print  Current Time     current time  Current Time   17 56 54   In addition  we can get the current time of time zome using pytZ module    gt  gt  gt  from pytz import timezone  gt  gt  gt  import pytz  gt  gt  gt  eastern   timezone  US Eastern    gt  gt  gt  eastern zone  US Eastern   gt  gt  gt  amsterdam   timezone  Europe Amsterdam    gt  gt  gt  datetime eu   datetime now amsterdam   gt  gt  gt  print  Europe time     datetime eu strftime   H  M  S    Europe time   14 45 31

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if you are using numpy already then directly you can use numpy datetime64    function   import numpy as np str np datetime64  now      for only date   str np datetime64  today      or  if you are using pandas already then you can use pandas to datetime   function  import pandas as pd str pd to datetime  now      or   str pd to datetime  today

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import datetime date time   datetime datetime now    date   date time date      Gives the date time   date time time      Gives the time  print date year  date month  date day print time hour  time minute  time second  time microsecond   Do dir date  or any variables including the package  You can get all the attributes and methods associated with the variable

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The previous answers are all good suggestions  but I find it easiest to use ctime     In  2   from time import ctime In  3   ctime   Out 3    Thu Oct 31 11 40 53 2013    This gives a nicely formatted string representation of the current local time

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Current time of a timezone  from datetime import datetime import pytz  tz NY   pytz timezone  America New York    datetime NY   datetime now tz NY  print  NY time    datetime NY strftime   H  M  S     tz London   pytz timezone  Europe London   datetime London   datetime now tz London  print  London time    datetime London strftime   H  M  S     tz India   pytz timezone  Asia India   datetime India   datetime now tz India  print  India time    datetime India strftime   H  M  S      list timezones pytz all timezones

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datetime now   returns the current time as a naive datetime object that represents time in the local timezone  That value may be ambiguous e g   during DST transitions   fall back    To avoid ambiguity either UTC timezone should be used   from datetime import datetime  utc time   datetime utcnow   print utc time    - gt  2014-12-22 22 48 59 916417   Or a timezone-aware object that has the corresponding timezone info attached  Python 3 2     from datetime import datetime  timezone  now   datetime now timezone utc  astimezone   print now    - gt  2014-12-23 01 49 25 837541 03 00

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Use    gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   datetime datetime 2009  1  6  15  8  24  78915    gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime now    2009-01-06 15 08 24 789150   And just the time    gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   time   datetime time 15  8  24  78915    gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime now   time    15 08 24 789150   See the documentation for more information   To save typing  you can import the datetime object from the datetime module    gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime   Then remove the leading datetime  from all of the above

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This is so simple  Try   import datetime date time   str datetime datetime now    date   date time split   0  time   date time split   1

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This question is for Python but since Django is one of the most widely used frameworks for Python  its important to note that if you are using Django you can always use timezone now   instead of datetime datetime now    The former is timezone  aware  while the latter is not    See this SO answer and the Django doc for details and rationale behind timezone now     from django utils import timezone  now   timezone now

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You can use time strftime          gt  gt  gt  from time import gmtime  strftime  gt  gt  gt  strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S   gmtime     2009-01-05 22 14 39

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You can use the time module   gt  gt  gt  import time  gt  gt  gt  print time strftime  quot  d  m  Y quot    06 02 2015  The use of the capital Y gives the full year  and using y would give 06 02 15  You could also use the following code to give a more lengthy time   gt  gt  gt  time strftime  quot  a   d  b  Y  H  M  S quot    Fri  06 Feb 2015 17 45 09

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import datetime date time   str datetime datetime now    split   date time   date time   date will print date and time will print time

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Method1  Getting Current Date and Time from system datetime  The datetime module supplies classes for manipulating dates and times      Code   from datetime import datetime date  print  Date    str date today   year   -  str date today   month   -  str date today   day   print  Year    str date today   year   print  Month    str date today   month   print  Day    str date today   day    n    print  Time    str datetime today   hour      str datetime today   minute      str datetime today   second   print  Hour    str datetime today   hour   print  Minute    str datetime today   minute   print  Second    str datetime today   second   print  MilliSecond    str datetime today   microsecond        Output will be like   Date  2020-4-18 Year  2020 Month  4 Day  18  Time  19 30 5 Hour  19 Minute  30 Second  5 MilliSecond  836071   Method2  Getting Current Date and Time if Network is available  urllib package helps us to handle the url s that means webpages  Here we collects data from the webpage http   just-the-time appspot com  and parses dateime from the webpage using the package dateparser      Code   from urllib request import urlopen import dateparser  time url   urlopen u http   just-the-time appspot com    datetime   time url read   decode  utf-8   errors  ignore   split       -1  date   datetime 0  time   datetime 1   print  Date    str date   print  Year    str date split  -   0    print  Month    str date split  -   1    print  Day    str date split  -   2     n    print  Time    str time   print  Hour    str time split      0    print  Minute    str time split      1    print  Second    str time split      2         Output will be like   Date  2020-04-18 Year  2020 Month  04 Day  18  Time  14 17 10 Hour  14 Minute  17 Second  10   Method3  Getting Current Date and Time from Local Time of the Machine  Python s time module provides a function for getting local time from the number of seconds elapsed since the epoch called localtime    ctime   function takes seconds passed since epoch as an argument and returns a string representing local time      Code   from time import time  ctime datetime   ctime time    split       print  Date    str datetime 4    -  str datetime 1    -  str datetime 2    print  Year    str datetime 4    print  Month    str datetime 1    print  Day    str datetime 2    print  Week Day    str datetime 0     n    print  Time    str datetime 3    print  Hour    str datetime 3   split      0   print  Minute    str datetime 3   split      1   print  Second    str datetime 3   split      2        Output will be like   Date  2020-Apr-18 Year  2020 Month  Apr Day  18 Week Day  Sat  Time  19 30 20 Hour  19 Minute  30 Second  20

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gt  gt  gt  from time import gmtime  strftime  gt  gt  gt  strftime   a   d  b  Y  X  0000   gmtime     Tue  06 Jan 2009 04 54 56  0000    That outputs the current GMT in the specified format  There is also a localtime   method    This page has more details

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Because no one has mentioned it yet  and this is something I ran into recently    a pytz timezone s fromutc   method combined with datetime s utcnow   is the best way I ve found to get a useful current time  and date  in any timezone   from datetime import datetime  import pytz   JST   pytz timezone  Asia Tokyo     local time   JST fromutc datetime utcnow      If all you want is the time  you can then get that with local time time

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import datetime  todays date   datetime date today   print todays date   gt  gt  gt  2019-10-12    adding strftime will remove the seconds current time   datetime datetime now   strftime   H  M   print current time   gt  gt  gt  23 38

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The quickest way is    gt  gt  gt  import time  gt  gt  gt  time strftime   Y m d    20130924

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Use    gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   datetime datetime 2009  1  6  15  8  24  78915    gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime now    2009-01-06 15 08 24 789150   And just the time    gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   time   datetime time 15  8  24  78915    gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime now   time    15 08 24 789150   See the documentation for more information   To save typing  you can import the datetime object from the datetime module    gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime   Then remove the leading datetime  from all of the above

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I want to get the time with milliseconds  A simple way to get them   import time  datetime  print datetime datetime now   time                              11 20 08 272239    Or in a more complicated way print datetime datetime now   time   isoformat                  11 20 08 272239 print datetime datetime now   time   strftime   H  M  S  f      11 20 08 272239    But do not use this  print time strftime   H  M  S  f   time localtime     str       11 20 08  f   But I want only milliseconds  right  The shortest way to get them   import time  time strftime   H  M  S   time localtime         d     time time     1   1000    11 34 23 751   Add or remove zeroes from the last multiplication to adjust number of decimal points  or just   def get time str decimal points 3       return time strftime   H  M  S   time localtime         d     time time     1   10  decimal points

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Do  from time import time  t   time      t - float number  good for time interval measurement    There is some difference for Unix and Windows platforms

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Try the arrow module from http   crsmithdev com arrow    import arrow arrow now     Or the UTC version   arrow utcnow     To change its output  add  format     arrow utcnow   format  YYYY-MM-DD HH mm ss ZZ     For a specific timezone   arrow now  US Pacific     An hour ago   arrow utcnow   replace hours -1    Or if you want the gist   arrow get  2013-05-11T21 23 58 970460 00 00   humanize    gt  gt  gt   2 years ago

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This is what I ended up going with     gt  gt  gt from time import strftime  gt  gt  gt strftime   m  d  Y  H  M   01 09 2015 13 11   Also  this table is a necessary reference for choosing the appropriate format codes to get the date formatted just the way you want it  from Python  datetime  documentation here

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You can use the time module   gt  gt  gt  import time  gt  gt  gt  print time strftime  quot  d  m  Y quot    06 02 2015  The use of the capital Y gives the full year  and using y would give 06 02 15  You could also use the following code to give a more lengthy time   gt  gt  gt  time strftime  quot  a   d  b  Y  H  M  S quot    Fri  06 Feb 2015 17 45 09

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If you need current time as a time object    gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  now   datetime datetime now    gt  gt  gt  datetime time now hour  now minute  now second  datetime time 11  23  44

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import datetime  todays date   datetime date today   print todays date   gt  gt  gt  2019-10-12    adding strftime will remove the seconds current time   datetime datetime now   strftime   H  M   print current time   gt  gt  gt  23 38

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From Python 3 9  the zoneinfo module can be used for getting timezones rather than using a third party library  To get the current time in a particular timezone  from datetime import datetime from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo  datetime now tz ZoneInfo  quot Europe Amsterdam quot

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import datetime date time   datetime datetime now    date   date time date      Gives the date time   date time time      Gives the time  print date year  date month  date day print time hour  time minute  time second  time microsecond   Do dir date  or any variables including the package  You can get all the attributes and methods associated with the variable

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gt  gt  gt  from time import gmtime  strftime  gt  gt  gt  strftime   a   d  b  Y  X  0000   gmtime     Tue  06 Jan 2009 04 54 56  0000    That outputs the current GMT in the specified format  There is also a localtime   method    This page has more details

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The previous answers are all good suggestions  but I find it easiest to use ctime     In  2   from time import ctime In  3   ctime   Out 3    Thu Oct 31 11 40 53 2013    This gives a nicely formatted string representation of the current local time

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This question is for Python but since Django is one of the most widely used frameworks for Python  its important to note that if you are using Django you can always use timezone now   instead of datetime datetime now    The former is timezone  aware  while the latter is not    See this SO answer and the Django doc for details and rationale behind timezone now     from django utils import timezone  now   timezone now

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If you just want the current timestamp in ms  for example  to measure execution time   you can also use the  timeit  module   import timeit start time   timeit default timer   do stuff you want to measure   end time   timeit default timer   print  Elapsed time      format end time - start time

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You can do so using ctime     from time import time  ctime t   time   ctime t    output   Sat Sep 14 21 27 08 2019  These outputs are different because the timestamp returned by ctime   depends on your geographical location

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You can use this function to get the time  unfortunately it doesn t say AM or PM    def gettime        from datetime import datetime     return   str datetime now     split      1   split      0    To get the hours  minutes  seconds and milliseconds to merge later  you can use these functions   Hour   def gethour        from datetime import datetime     return    str datetime now     split      1   split      0   split      0    Minute   def getminute        from datetime import datetime     return    str datetime now     split      1   split      0   split      1    Second   def getsecond        from datetime import datetime     return    str datetime now     split      1   split      0   split      2    Millisecond   def getmillisecond        from datetime import datetime     return  str datetime now     split      1

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we can accomplish that Using datetime module   gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  now   datetime now    get a datetime object containing current date and time  gt  gt  gt  current time   now strftime   H  M  S    created a string representing current time  gt  gt  gt  print  Current Time     current time  Current Time   17 56 54   In addition  we can get the current time of time zome using pytZ module    gt  gt  gt  from pytz import timezone  gt  gt  gt  import pytz  gt  gt  gt  eastern   timezone  US Eastern    gt  gt  gt  eastern zone  US Eastern   gt  gt  gt  amsterdam   timezone  Europe Amsterdam    gt  gt  gt  datetime eu   datetime now amsterdam   gt  gt  gt  print  Europe time     datetime eu strftime   H  M  S    Europe time   14 45 31

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You can use time strftime          gt  gt  gt  from time import gmtime  strftime  gt  gt  gt  strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S   gmtime     2009-01-05 22 14 39

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from datetime import datetime datetime now   strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S     For this example  the output will be like this   2013-09-18 11 16 32   Here is the list of strftime directives

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Why not ask the U S  Naval Observatory  the official timekeeper of the United States Navy   import requests from lxml import html  page   requests get  http   tycho usno navy mil cgi-bin timer pl   tree   html fromstring page content  print tree xpath    html  body  h3  pre text     1     If you live in the D C  area  like me  the latency might not be too bad

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Similar to Harley s answer  but use the str   function for a quick-n-dirty  slightly more human readable format    gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  str datetime now     2011-05-03 17 45 35 177000

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import datetime x   datetime datetime now   print x   I found this earlier this year while I was learning python on W3Schools  I highly recommend you using w3schools for small doubts  -

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You can  try the following import datetime  now   datetime datetime now   print now   or import datetime  now   datetime datetime now   print now strftime  quot  Y- b- d   A  I  M  S quot

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How do I get the current time in Python   The time module The time module provides functions that tell us the time in  quot seconds since the epoch quot  as well as other utilities  import time  Unix Epoch Time This is the format you should get timestamps in for saving in databases  It is a simple floating-point number that can be converted to an integer  It is also good for arithmetic in seconds  as it represents the number of seconds since Jan 1  1970  00 00 00  and it is memory light relative to the other representations of time we ll be looking at next   gt  gt  gt  time time   1424233311 771502  This timestamp does not account for leap-seconds  so it s not linear - leap seconds are ignored  So while it is not equivalent to the international UTC standard  it is close  and therefore quite good for most cases of record-keeping  This is not ideal for human scheduling  however  If you have a future event you wish to take place at a certain point in time  you ll want to store that time with a string that can be parsed into a datetime object or a serialized datetime object  these will be described later   time ctime You can also represent the current time in the way preferred by your operating system  which means it can change when you change your system preferences  so don t rely on this to be standard across all systems  as I ve seen others expect   This is typically user friendly  but doesn t typically result in strings one can sort chronologically   gt  gt  gt  time ctime    Tue Feb 17 23 21 56 2015   You can hydrate timestamps into human readable form with ctime as well   gt  gt  gt  time ctime 1424233311 771502   Tue Feb 17 23 21 51 2015   This conversion is also not good for record-keeping  except in text that will only be parsed by humans - and with improved Optical Character Recognition and Artificial Intelligence  I think the number of these cases will diminish   datetime module The datetime module is also quite useful here   gt  gt  gt  import datetime  datetime datetime now The datetime now is a class method that returns the current time  It uses the time localtime without the timezone info  if not given  otherwise see timezone aware below   It has a representation  which would allow you to recreate an equivalent object  echoed on the shell  but when printed  or coerced to a str   it is in human readable  and nearly ISO  format  and the lexicographic sort is equivalent to the chronological sort   gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now   datetime datetime 2015  2  17  23  43  49  94252   gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime now    2015-02-17 23 43 51 782461  datetime s utcnow You can get a datetime object in UTC time  a global standard  by doing this   gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime utcnow   datetime datetime 2015  2  18  4  53  28  394163   gt  gt  gt  print datetime datetime utcnow    2015-02-18 04 53 31 783988  UTC is a time standard that is nearly equivalent to the GMT timezone   While GMT and UTC do not change for Daylight Savings Time  their users may switch to other timezones  like British Summer Time  during the Summer   datetime timezone aware However  none of the datetime objects we ve created so far can be easily converted to various timezones  We can solve that problem with the pytz module   gt  gt  gt  import pytz  gt  gt  gt  then   datetime datetime now pytz utc   gt  gt  gt  then datetime datetime 2015  2  18  4  55  58  753949  tzinfo  lt UTC gt    Equivalently  in Python 3 we have the timezone class with a utc timezone instance attached  which also makes the object timezone aware  but to convert to another timezone without the handy pytz module is left as an exercise to the reader    gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime now datetime timezone utc  datetime datetime 2015  2  18  22  31  56  564191  tzinfo datetime timezone utc   And we see we can easily convert to timezones from the original UTC object   gt  gt  gt  print then  2015-02-18 04 55 58 753949 00 00  gt  gt  gt  print then astimezone pytz timezone  US Eastern     2015-02-17 23 55 58 753949-05 00  You can also make a naive datetime object aware with the pytz timezone localize method  or by replacing the tzinfo attribute  with replace  this is done blindly   but these are more last resorts than best practices   gt  gt  gt  pytz utc localize datetime datetime utcnow    datetime datetime 2015  2  18  6  6  29  32285  tzinfo  lt UTC gt    gt  gt  gt  datetime datetime utcnow   replace tzinfo pytz utc  datetime datetime 2015  2  18  6  9  30  728550  tzinfo  lt UTC gt    The pytz module allows us to make our datetime objects timezone aware and convert the times to the hundreds of timezones available in the pytz module  One could ostensibly serialize this object for UTC time and store that in a database  but it would require far more memory and be more prone to error than simply storing the Unix Epoch time  which I demonstrated first  The other ways of viewing times are much more error-prone  especially when dealing with data that may come from different time zones  You want there to be no confusion as to which timezone a string or serialized datetime object was intended for  If you re displaying the time with Python for the user  ctime works nicely  not in a table  it doesn t typically sort well   but perhaps in a clock  However  I personally recommend  when dealing with time in Python  either using Unix time  or a timezone aware UTC datetime object

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Current time of a timezone  from datetime import datetime import pytz  tz NY   pytz timezone  America New York    datetime NY   datetime now tz NY  print  NY time    datetime NY strftime   H  M  S     tz London   pytz timezone  Europe London   datetime London   datetime now tz London  print  London time    datetime London strftime   H  M  S     tz India   pytz timezone  Asia India   datetime India   datetime now tz India  print  India time    datetime India strftime   H  M  S      list timezones pytz all timezones

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If you want the time for purpose of timing function calls  then you want time perf counter     start time   time perf counter   expensive function   time taken   time perf counter   - start time print f expensive function   took  round time taken 2  s        time perf counter     float      Return the value  in fractional seconds  of a performance counter  i e  a clock with the highest available resolution to measure a short duration  It does include time elapsed during sleep and is system-wide  The reference point of the returned value is undefined  so that only the difference between the results of consecutive calls is valid       New in version 3 3             time perf counter ns     int      Similar to perf counter    but return time as nanoseconds       New in version 3 7     https   docs python org 3 library time html time perf counter

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If you want the time for purpose of timing function calls  then you want time perf counter     start time   time perf counter   expensive function   time taken   time perf counter   - start time print f expensive function   took  round time taken 2  s        time perf counter     float      Return the value  in fractional seconds  of a performance counter  i e  a clock with the highest available resolution to measure a short duration  It does include time elapsed during sleep and is system-wide  The reference point of the returned value is undefined  so that only the difference between the results of consecutive calls is valid       New in version 3 3             time perf counter ns     int      Similar to perf counter    but return time as nanoseconds       New in version 3 7     https   docs python org 3 library time html time perf counter

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If you need current time as a time object    gt  gt  gt  import datetime  gt  gt  gt  now   datetime datetime now    gt  gt  gt  datetime time now hour  now minute  now second  datetime time 11  23  44

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