Quick question. I have to time stamps (now and now2). now = datetime.datetime.now(); now2 = datetime.datetime.now(); now2-now1 yields me a result in 0:00:00.11221 (H:MM:SS.ssss) I wanted to know if there is a standard python method or a quick hack to add an extra zero in the beginning. So the result I am looking for would be 00:00:00.11221