Speaking current date & time with Python?

Non-coder here. I've been reviewing the python scripting docs and am not finding much related to speech, aside from one example in the NOAA plugin documentation about speaking a variable. Can someone point me to where I might learn how to make Indigo speak the current date and time?
TIA,
Jim

If you are just interested in having the spoken message read on the server machine -- the code is pretty easy. The format is controlled by the specifiers (% values) and the list of options can be found here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes

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import datetime

now = indigo.server.getTime()
string = datetime.datetime.strftime(now, "%A, %B %d at %-I %M")
indigo.server.speak(string)


Thanks, Dave. That really helps!

Jim

No worries. Interestingly, printed to the log you get:

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Tuesday, October 18 at 5 25

But the spoken message I hear is:

Tuesday, the eighteenth of October at five twenty-five.