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I'm trying to collect information from a system and I need to get the current time in hours and minutes.
Currently I have:
date | awk '{print $4}' which outputs something like:
16:18:54 How do I chop off the seconds?
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How to Get the Current Time with the datetime Module. To get the current time in particular, you can use the strftime() method and pass into it the string ”%H:%M:%S” representing hours, minutes, and seconds.
To get the hours and minutes from a date, call the getHours() and getMinutes() methods on the date object. The getHours method returns the hours and the getMinutes() method returns the minutes in the specified date. Copied!
Options to Display the Time%T: Prints the time as HH:MM:SS. %R: Prints the hour and minutes as HH:MM with no seconds, using the 24-hour clock. %r: Prints the time according to your locale, using the 12-hour clock and an am or pm indicator. %X: Prints the time according to your locale, using the 24-hour clock.
Provide a format string:
date +"%H:%M" Running man date will give all the format options
%a locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun) %A locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday) %b locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan) %B locale's full month name (e.g., January) %c locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005) %C century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 20) %d day of month (e.g., 01) %D date; same as %m/%d/%y %e day of month, space padded; same as %_d %F full date; same as %Y-%m-%d %g last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G) %G year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V %h same as %b %H hour (00..23) %I hour (01..12) %j day of year (001..366) %k hour, space padded ( 0..23); same as %_H %l hour, space padded ( 1..12); same as %_I %m month (01..12) %M minute (00..59) %n a newline %N nanoseconds (000000000..999999999) %p locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known %P like %p, but lower case %r locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM) %R 24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M %s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC %S second (00..60) %t a tab %T time; same as %H:%M:%S %u day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday %U week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53) %V ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53) %w day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday %W week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53) %x locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99) %X locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48) %y last two digits of year (00..99) %Y year %z +hhmm numeric time zone (e.g., -0400) %:z +hh:mm numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00) %::z +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00) %:::z numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30) %Z alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT) If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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