How to get formatted date time in python
You can use the same formatting string in strftime
on a datetime
object:
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%b-%d-%I%M%p-%G')
'May-16-0245PM-2011'
Incidentally, I'd just like to put a word in for the joy of ISO-8601 date formatting
Same formatting, using strftime()
:
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%b-%d-%I%M%p-%G')
'May-16-1050PM-2011'
To get your filename, it's as simple as:
>>> datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%b-%d-%I%M%p-%G') + '.tar'
'May-16-1050PM-2011.tar'