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In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to get the current date and time by now()<\/strong> function of the Python datetime() module<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The later part of the tutorial also shows other ways of getting the current time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The general syntax for using the now() function:<\/p>\n The following example displays the current local date and time by using the now() function of the datetime.<\/p>\n For that, you first need to import\u00a0datetime module, as shown in the example below:<\/p>\n Output:<\/strong><\/p>\n This example uses the time zone argument in the datetime.now() function and displays the time in UTC (Universal Time Coordinated):<\/p>\n In the above examples, we get the date and time while using the now() function. For only getting the current date<\/strong>, you may use the date() method as follows:<\/p>\n This should display the current date only.<\/p>\n Similarly, by using the time() function, you may get the time only:<\/p>\n The example below displays the time in the UTC zone without date:<\/p>\n You may use the time() module as well to get the date and time for local time, GMT etc.<\/p>\n The example below shows using the time module where I used strftime<\/strong> and localtime()<\/strong> functions for getting the local date and formatting as shown below:<\/p>\n The output of the above example should be current local time in this formation:<\/p>\n\n
How to use the now() function?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
datetime.now(tz=None)<\/div>\n\n
An example of Python now() to get current local date and time<\/strong><\/h3>\n
# An example of getting current date\r\n\r\nimport datetime\r\n\r\ncurrDate = datetime.datetime.now()\r\n\r\nprint(currDate)<\/pre>\n
\u201cIt should display the current date and time of the system\u201d<\/div>\nThe example of using a time zone argument<\/strong><\/h3>\n
# Current time as UTC\r\n\r\nimport datetime\r\n\r\ndt_utc = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)\r\n\r\nprint(dt_utc)<\/pre>\n
Getting date only by now() function<\/strong><\/h3>\n
# Current date only demo\r\n\r\nimport datetime\r\n\r\ndate_only = datetime.datetime.now().date()\r\n\r\nprint(date_only)<\/pre>\n
How to get time only by now() function?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
# Current time only demo\r\n\r\nimport datetime\r\n\r\ntime_only = datetime.datetime.now().time()\r\n\r\nprint(time_only)<\/pre>\n
Only getting time in UTC time zone<\/strong><\/h3>\n
#Time only in UTC demo\r\n\r\nimport datetime\r\n\r\n\r\ntime_utc = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).time()\r\n\r\nprint(time_utc)<\/pre>\n
The example of getting date by using the time module<\/strong><\/h3>\n
#Time module demo\r\n\r\nfrom time import strftime,localtime\r\n\r\n\r\ndate_local = strftime(\"%A, %d %b %Y\", localtime())\r\n\r\nprint(date_local)<\/pre>\n