In this article, you will learn to get current time of your locale as well as different time zones in Python.
There are a number of ways you can take to get current time in Python.
Example 1: Current time using datetime object
from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
current_time = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")
print("Current Time =", current_time)
Output
Current Time = 07:41:19
In the above example, we have imported datetime class from the module. Then, we used now() method to get a datetime object containing current date and time.
Using method, we then created a string representing current time.
If you need to create a time object containing current time, you can do something like this.
from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now().time() # time object
print("now =", now)
print("type(now) =", type(now))
Output
now = 07:43:37.457423
type(now) = <class 'datetime.time'>
Example 2: Current time using time module
You can also get the current time using time module.
import time
t = time.localtime()
current_time = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", t)
print(current_time)