Python - Formatted Dates and Times

I am not sure why, but every time I need to use some formatted dates or times in Python, I end up spending about 20 minutes going through the docs and reading up on the datetime module; which leads to more confusion.

So for my own clarity, here is how we do it using only the time module:


All of the formatting options for strftime() can be found here: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html