16. Dates.py

import datetime

d = datetime.datetime.now()

# -------------------

# Creating Date Objects

# datetime() class requires three parameters (year, month, day).
# optional parameters (hour, minute, second, microsecond, tzone),
# default value 0, (None for timezone)
d = datetime.datetime(2019,5,1)

# strftime(format)
# format date objects into readable strings

print(d.strftime("%c"))

'''
%c	Local version of date and time	Mon Dec 31 17:41:00 2018

%d	Day of month 01-31	31
%a	Day, short version	Wed
%A	Day, full version	Wednesday

%m	Month as a number 01-12     12
%b	Month name, short version	Dec
%B	Month name, full version	December

%y	Year, short version, without century	18
%Y	Year, full version	2018

%w	Weekday as a number 0-6, 0 is Sunday	3
%H	Hour 00-23	17	
%I	Hour 00-12	05	
%p	AM/PM	PM	
%M	Minute 00-59	41	
%S	Second 00-59	08	
%f	Microsecond 000000-999999	548513	
%z	UTC offset	+0100	
%Z	Timezone	CST
%j	Day number of year 001-366	365
%U	Week number of year, Sunday as the first day of week, 00-53	52	
%W	Week number of year, Monday as the first day of week, 00-53	52	
%C	Century	20
%x	Local version of date	12/31/18
%X	Local version of time	17:41:00
%%	A % character	%
%G	ISO 8601 year	2018
%u	ISO 8601 weekday (1-7)	1
%V	ISO 8601 weeknumber (01-53)	01
'''