Format datetime.utcnow() time

Question

I have saved a time as presentTime=datetime.datetime.utcnow()

It 's output is 2014-08-18 21:11:35.537000. How can this be formatted to : August 18 2014 - 21:11:35 instead?

Answer 1

datetime.utcnow returns a datetime object. You can use its strftime method to convert it into a string of your desired format:

>>> datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime('%B %d %Y - %H:%M:%S')
'August 20 2014 - 13:55:49'

Answer 2

the object you're getting is a datetime instance. Just format it via its method strftime(): https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/datetime.html?highlight=date#datetime.datetime.strftime

update (thx @Ffisegyedd):

possible placeholders values: https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior