Let’s say we want to print today’s date or calculate the age of a person. In Python, we can do so easily using the datetime module.

The datetime module can be imported in Python in the following way:

import datetime

Now, let’s say we want to print today’s date and time. We can do so in the following way:

import datetime

now = datetime.datetime.now()
print(now)

The program will print output like the following:

2021-12-15 13:16:26.109010

Here, 2021-12-15 indicates the year, month, and date. 13:16:26 indicates the hour, minute, and second. And, 109010 indicates the microsecond.

Now, let’s say we want the date and time in a string format and in a more human-readable format. We can use the strftime() function for that purpose. The strftime(format) function takes a format as input and prints the date in the given string format.

For example,