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Python Current Date Time

Published on August 3, 2022
👁 Python Current Date Time

We can use Python datetime module to get the current date and time of the local system.

from datetime import datetime

# Current date time in local system
print(datetime.now())

Output: 2018-09-12 14:17:56.456080

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Hello. I want to make print current time like mysql’s datetime format. example 2021-08-27 18:10:11 How to make it without 3rd party libraries?

- yolu

Uups, I need to setup something because after the “succesfull” installation of pytz and pendulum I get the same error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘pytz’ or ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘pendulum’ but when I try to run the install again I got the message “Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil=2.6 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pendulum) (2.7.3)”, similar with pytz module. Please give me a tip for fixing this. I have lubuntu 20.04 and Python 3.8.10 (default, Sep 28 2021, 16:10:42) [GCC 9.3.0] on linux

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