Python time formatting different in Windows

Question

I\'m probably missing an obvious platform difference that I should be accommodating but I\'m getting this when trying to do a time format (Python2.7)...

in Linux env

Answer 1

In general, you'll find that python time.strftime() supports the same set of format specifiers as the platform (or that platform's libc to be more specific) it runs on. However, only a subset of these is portable. See http://docs.python.org/library/time.html for a list. To quote the docs:

Additional directives may be supported on certain platforms, but only the ones listed here have a meaning standardized by ANSI C.

In this case, %T can be replaced by %H:%M:%S.