Is this what you are looking for: >>> import time >>> ticks = time.time() >>> time.asctime ( time.localtime (ticks) ) 'Tue May 08 16:41:13 2001' >>> "LC" <lco at gofuse.com> wrote in message news:9d9obt$p9s$1 at nntp2-cm.news.eni.net... > Can someone tell me how can I retrieve the date using Python on a Windows > 2000 machine? TIA > > Leo Chen > > >