Python datetime.strftime() delegates to C strftime() function that is platform-dependent: The full set of format codes supported varies across platforms, because Python calls the platform C library’s strftime() function, and platform variations are common. To see the full set of format codes supported on your platform, consult the strftime(3) documentation. Glibc notes for strftime(3): – … Read more
You can do the following: >>> utctime.isoformat() ‘1601-01-01T00:00:00.000050’ Now if you want to have exactly the same format as above: iso = utctime.isoformat() tokens = iso.strip().split(“T”) last_visit_time = “Last visit time: %s %s” % (tokens[0], tokens[1].strip().split(“.”)[0]) Not that there seems to be a patch for strftime to fix this behavior here (not tested)
You’re not missing anything. The next C standard (due out probably this year) does have defined in Annex K: struct tm *localtime_s(const time_t * restrict timer, struct tm * restrict result); And this new function is thread safe! But don’t get too happy. There’s two major problems: localtime_s is an optional extension to C11. C++11 … Read more
The example given by Rob is great, but isn’t threadsafe. Here’s a version that works with threads: import locale import threading from datetime import datetime from contextlib import contextmanager LOCALE_LOCK = threading.Lock() @contextmanager def setlocale(name): with LOCALE_LOCK: saved = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL) try: yield locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, name) finally: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, saved) # Let’s set a non-US locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ‘de_DE.UTF-8’) … Read more
strftime doesn’t allow you to format a date with a suffix. Here’s a way to get the correct suffix: if 4 <= day <= 20 or 24 <= day <= 30: suffix = “th” else: suffix = [“st”, “nd”, “rd”][day % 10 – 1] found here Update: Combining a more compact solution based on Jochen’s … Read more
Use the l (alias for localize) method instead of raw strftime, like this: l(date, format: ‘%B %d, in the year %Y’) See here for more information. You can also define ‘named’ formats, a couple of them (short, long) are already predefined.
Some versions of strftime do allow prefixing with minus to format out leading zeros, for eg: strftime “%-d/%-m/%y” However this will depend on strftime on your system. So for consistency I would do something like this instead: dt = Time.local(2010, ‘Sep’, 1) printf “%d/%d/%d”, dt.day, dt.month, dt.year
You can use datetime’s strftime function to get this. The problem is that time’s strftime accepts a timetuple that does not carry microsecond information. from datetime import datetime datetime.now().strftime(“%H:%M:%S.%f”) Should do the trick!
You can use dt.strftime if you need to convert datetime to other formats (but note that then dtype of column will be object (string)): import pandas as pd df = pd.DataFrame({‘DOB’: {0: ’26/1/2016′, 1: ’26/1/2016′}}) print (df) DOB 0 26/1/2016 1 26/1/2016 df[‘DOB’] = pd.to_datetime(df.DOB) print (df) DOB 0 2016-01-26 1 2016-01-26 df[‘DOB1’] = df[‘DOB’].dt.strftime(‘%m/%d/%Y’) … Read more