Formatting Timestamps for Readability

00:00 If you’d like to make your outputs more readable, you can use the .strftime() method on your datetime object. The .strftime() method takes format codes as arguments.

00:10 Format codes are placeholders within a string, which are replaced with specific values when the code is executed. In the example that you’ll be shown, you will see the following three format codes used: %A, which will return the current weekday; %B, which will return the current month’s full name.

00:30 You’ll also see %d, which will return the numeric day of the month.

00:36 Inside the method, you can write the following string, which states Today is %A, which is the current weekday, %B, which is the current month, and %d, which is the current day.

00:50 Upon executing the code, you can see that Python returns Today is Sunday, October 01`. There are many more format codes that you can use within the .strftime() method.

01:00 For a handy cheat sheet, you can head over to strftime.org.

01:05 In the next lesson, you will learn about what Unix time is the importance of it in programming, as well as how to work with it in Python.