part iitalking the talk datetime command technicallythis act is called importing moduleand you learn more about it in don' worry how the command works right now -just use it whenever you want to do something with date and time computers do have clocks inside thembut the clocks are for the humans using the computer yessome software also depends on the clockbut againthe emphasis is on human needs rather than anything the computer might require to get the current timeyou can simply type datetime datetime nowand press enter you see the full date and time information as found on your computer' clock (see figure - figure - get the cur rent date and time using the now(command you may have noticed that the date and time are little hard to read in the existing format say that you want to get just the current datein readable format it' time to combine few things you discovered in previous sections to accomplish that task type str(datetime datetime nowdate)and press enter figure - shows that you now have something little more usable figure - make the date and time more readable using the str(command interestingly enoughpython also has time(commandwhich you can use to obtain the current time you can obtain separate values for each of the components that make up date and time using the daymonthyearhourminutesecondand microsecond values later help you understand how to use these various date and time features to keep application users informed about the current date and time on their system