Function Name:
ctime
Function Signature:
ctime()
Return Value:
Returns a string that contains the date and time.
Function Overview:
- For a Python datetime.date object the ctime() method returns the string representation of the date value and time.
- Since date class does not have any time related attributes the string will have its time component as 00:00:00.
- The format of the string representation:
- The string is of 24-character length.
- The day of the week is printed as a three-letter word.
- Sun, Mo, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
- Months are represented as three digit letters
- Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
- The day of the month is represented as a two digit number
- Time is represented in HH:MM:SS format
- Year is a 4 digit number
Function type:
Instance method
Example:
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import datetime import time
# Construct a date object for today todaysDate = datetime.date.fromtimestamp(time.time());
# Print the ctime print("Today's date:%s"%todaysDate.ctime());
# Construct a date object for a future date futureDate = datetime.date(2020, 1, 31);
# Print the ctime print("A date in future:%s"%futureDate.ctime()); print("Length of the date string:%s"%len(futureDate.ctime())); |
Output:
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Today's date:Fri Jul 12 00:00:00 2019 A date in future:Fri Jan 31 00:00:00 2020 Length of the date string:24 |