Datetime module from the python standard library.
#Importing the string module import time #lets get the UNIXTIMESTAMP or seconds from epoch which is 1/1/1970 00:00:00 import time time.time() #Days since epoch time.time()/(60*60*24) #3 ways to print the current date in human readable format print time.asctime(time.localtime()) print time.ctime(time.time()) print time.ctime() #find the timezone of the server time.timezone #GMT time since epoch time.gmtime()