Python 3 printing datetime date as 1900?

For some reason, when I format datetime.datetime.now() to print the date and time nicely in Python 3, the date keeps coming out as 01/01/1900.

Here is my code:

print('{}'.format(str(datetime.datetime.now().time().strftime('%x %X'))))

Output: 01/01/00 13:40:11

Any ideas on why the date is wrong?

Solution 1:

Converting to a datetime.time removes the date:

Code:

print(dt.datetime.now().time().strftime('%x %X'))
print(dt.datetime.now().strftime('%x %X'))

Results:

01/01/00 20:47:41
05/05/17 20:47:41

Solution 2:

Your call is to datetime.datetime.now().time()

Notice the difference between that, and datetime.datetime.now()

>>> datetime.datetime.now().time()
datetime.time(22, 45, 48, 610362)
>>> datetime.datetime.now()
datetime.datetime(2017, 5, 5, 22, 45, 57, 874420)

You want to remove the .time() portion in your .format().

>>> print('{}'.format(datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%x %X')))
05/05/17 22:47:30