Ultimately you want to review the datetime documentation and become familiar with the formatting variables, but here are some examples to get you started:
import datetime
print('Timestamp: {:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}'.format(datetime.datetime.now()))
print('Timestamp: {:%Y-%b-%d %H:%M:%S}'.format(datetime.datetime.now()))
print('Date now: %s' % datetime.datetime.now())
print('Date today: %s' % datetime.date.today())
today = datetime.date.today()
print("Today's date is {:%b, %d %Y}".format(today))
schedule = '{:%b, %d %Y}'.format(today) + ' - 6 PM to 10 PM Pacific'
schedule2 = '{:%B, %d %Y}'.format(today) + ' - 1 PM to 6 PM Central'
print('Maintenance: %s' % schedule)
print('Maintenance: %s' % schedule2)
The output:
Timestamp: 2014-10-18 21:31:12
Timestamp: 2014-Oct-18 21:31:12
Date now: 2014-10-18 21:31:12.318340
Date today: 2014-10-18
Today's date is Oct, 18 2014
Maintenance: Oct, 18 2014 - 6 PM to 10 PM Pacific
Maintenance: October, 18 2014 - 1 PM to 6 PM Central
Reference link: https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior