datetime

import datetime

x = datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 15)

print(x.strftime("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S"))

<?php 
     $deliverytime = new DateTime('2014-09-08 06:00:00');
     $hour = $deliverytime->format('H');
     if ($hour < 12) {
       echo "Morning";
     } else {
       echo "Afternoon or evening";
     }
?>

dateutil - powerful extensions to datetime
pip install python-dateutils