Introduction

Python provides so many options to get the current time. Here, we will look through the various options provided.

Program

Approach 1: Using pytz

from datetime import *
import pytz
time_INDIA = pytz.timezone('Asia/Kolkata')
datetime = datetime.now(time_INDIA)
print("INDIA time is: ", datetime.strftime("%H:%M:%S"))

Output:

Approach 2: Using Date Time object

Output:

Approach 3: Using Time

Output:

Explanation

In the above program we can observe that to get the specific region current time we have used pytz module in approach 1.  Python has provided datetime and time modules to get the current time. In approach 3, time.localtime() accepts the object containing the local time in seconds since epoch and returns local time.