date、datetime和time对象都支持strftime（格式）方法，在显式格式的控制下创建表示时间的字符串一串

以下是格式代码及其指令和含义的列表。

%a  Locale’s abbreviated weekday name.
%A  Locale’s full weekday name.      
%b  Locale’s abbreviated month name.     
%B  Locale’s full month name.
%c  Locale’s appropriate date and time representation.   
%d  Day of the month as a decimal number [01,31].    
%f  Microsecond as a decimal number [0,999999], zero-padded on the left
%H  Hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number [00,23].    
%I  Hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number [01,12].    
%j  Day of the year as a decimal number [001,366].   
%m  Month as a decimal number [01,12].   
%M  Minute as a decimal number [00,59].      
%p  Locale’s equivalent of either AM or PM.
%S  Second as a decimal number [00,61].
%U  Week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week)
%w  Weekday as a decimal number [0(Sunday),6].   
%W  Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week)
%x  Locale’s appropriate date representation.    
%X  Locale’s appropriate time representation.    
%y  Year without century as a decimal number [00,99].    
%Y  Year with century as a decimal number.   
%z  UTC offset in the form +HHMM or -HHMM.
%Z  Time zone name (empty string if the object is naive).    
%%  A literal '%' character.

这是我们可以使用Python中的datetime和time模块所做的

import time
import datetime

print "Time in seconds since the epoch: %s" %time.time()
print "Current date and time: ", datetime.datetime.now()
print "Or like this: ", datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%y-%m-%d-%H-%M")

print "Current year: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%Y")
print "Month of year: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%B")
print "Week number of the year: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%W")
print "Weekday of the week: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%w")
print "Day of year: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%j")
print "Day of the month : ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%d")
print "Day of week: ", datetime.date.today().strftime("%A")

这将打印出如下内容：

Time in seconds since the epoch:    1349271346.46
Current date and time:              2012-10-03 15:35:46.461491
Or like this:                       12-10-03-15-35
Current year:                       2012
Month of year:                      October
Week number of the year:            40
Weekday of the week:                3
Day of year:                        277
Day of the month :                  03
Day of week:                        Wednesday

我讨厌为了方便而导入太多模块的想法。我宁愿使用可用的模块，在本例中是datetime，而不是调用新的模块time。

>>> a = datetime.datetime(2015, 04, 01, 11, 23, 22)
>>> a.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
'2015-04-01 11:23'

# convert date time to regular format.

d_date = datetime.datetime.now()
reg_format_date = d_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %I:%M:%S %p")
print(reg_format_date)

# some other date formats.
reg_format_date = d_date.strftime("%d %B %Y %I:%M:%S %p")
print(reg_format_date)
reg_format_date = d_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
print(reg_format_date)

输出，输出

2016-10-06 01:21:34 PM
06 October 2016 01:21:34 PM
2016-10-06 13:21:34

这更短：

>>> import time
>>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
'2013-11-19 09:38'

您可以执行以下操作：

mylist.append(str(today))

甚至

from datetime import datetime, date

"{:%d.%m.%Y}".format(datetime.now())

截止日期：2013年12月25日

or

"{} - {:%d.%m.%Y}".format("Today", datetime.now())

输出：“今天-2013年12月25日”

"{:%A}".format(date.today())

外出：“星期三”

'{}__{:%Y.%m.%d__%H-%M}.log'.format(__name__, datetime.now())

输出：'__main____2014.06.09__16-56.log'