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Python 3 Script to Build 24 & 12 Hour Time Format Digital Clock in Terminal Using time Module
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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So in this video I will show you how to
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create a simple digital clock inside the
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terminal inside Python in various
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formats 24hour format or 12 hour format
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How to display the current date and time
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So I just written this simple Python
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script Let me run this Python script So
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it will output the current date and time
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If I execute this you will see in
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various formats So it will output the
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current time in 24-hour format which is
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this one and 12hour format this time and
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the current date So all these things it
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will print out something like a digital
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digital clock in the terminal You can
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easily do this using the built-in module
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time and operating system Uh I will show
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you step by step the script in this
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video So first of all you just need to
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require the time module and the
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operating system module Just require
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both these modules After that we will
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actually
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uh call our main function
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So we just call a main function So we
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just need to now define the main
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function right here
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So inside this we
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will run a simple while loop while true
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This will run indefinite number of time
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And here we'll be creating three
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variables The current time in 24hour
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format And for this we'll be using the
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time module And we'll be using this
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method
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str time and it will print out the time
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in three different formats in uh 24-hour
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format and the 12-hour format So you can
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see we are using this function and here
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we are specifying this
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format to get the time in 24hour and
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12-hour format and then we can simply
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print out the current date by using this
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again this function
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strf to print out the current
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eight So after doing
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this we will print out everything using
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these three print statements and then we
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will sleep
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for 1
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second So this is really important We
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just need to sleep for 1 second in
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between pause for updates
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So so again we just need to clear out
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the screen as well For clearing out the
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screen here we are calling this function
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clear screen So we just need to define
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this function which is
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clear
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screen So this will use the operating
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system module to clear the previous
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content and uh using this space clear
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out the previous content and then so
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once again if you run this now
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just it is saying that current date is
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not defined
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uh
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current date Oh sorry I think we
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forgot just create this variable where
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we will be storing the current
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date So you can see now we basically
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built out this digital clock which runs
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entirely in the terminal It shows your
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current time in 24hour format 12-hour
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format and also it print outs the
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current date as well So in this way you
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can build out a very simple digital
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clock inside your terminal which will
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show the current time So thank you very
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