I am able to get the current time as this:
import datetime
str(datetime.date.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d"))
that prints
2016-06-26
but i need to add the minutes and seconds and hour
i search on internet and people are suggesting using this:
str(datetime.date.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"));
but actually the %H:%M returns 00:00 always
can you help ?
Use
>>> datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
'2016-06-26 14:15:44'
You can even use .today() instead of .now().
datetime.date.today() is of type <type 'datetime.date'> which basically returns only the date. That is why your hours and minutes when printed returns 00:00.
Hence, if you use datetime.datetime.now() this would return type <type 'datetime.datetime'> which is a datetime object, you'll get the date and the time.
datetime.date only takes care of the date, you need to use datetime.datetime.
You are using the datetime.date object which doesn't contain any time.
You need to use 'datetime.datetime.now()'
Try this: will return a String with Hour,Minutes and Seconds
datetime.datetime.now()..strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
