Define your own class to store time and date
import time class now: def __init__(self): self.t = time.time() self.storetime() def storetime(self): self.year, \ self.month, \ self.day, \ self.hour, \ self.minute, \ self.second, \ self.dow, \ self.doy, \ self.dst = time.localtime(self.t) n = now() print "The year is", n.year print n