Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:

I would like to add my +1 to this issue.  I suggest adding something like this:

"""
Commonly used format codes:

%Y      Year with century as a decimal number.
%m      Month as a decimal number [01,12].
%d      Day of the month as a decimal number [01,31].
%H      Hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number [00,23].
%M      Minute as a decimal number [00,59].
%S      Second as a decimal number [00,61].
%z      Time zone offset from UTC.
%a      Locale’s abbreviated weekday name.
%A      Locale’s full weekday name.
%b      Locale’s abbreviated month name.
%B      Locale’s full month name.
%c      Locale’s appropriate date and time representation.

Other codes may be available on your platform.  See documentation for the C 
library strftime function.
"""

This is a subjective selection in a subjective order of importance, so some 
bikesheding is welcome.  My choice was motivated by the assumption that most 
commonly used are the codes required to form RFC 3339 timestamps.  I 
deliberately omitted deprecated %y code and the %Z code that produces 
non-standardized TZ names.  I can be persuaded to add 12 hour clock codes.

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assignee: docs@python -> belopolsky

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