diff --git a/Lib/zipfile.py b/Lib/zipfile.py
index 5c3fff3e74e..3c7b4310151 100644
--- a/Lib/zipfile.py
+++ b/Lib/zipfile.py
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ class ZipFile:
         """Print a table of contents for the zip file."""
         print "%-46s %19s %12s" % ("File Name", "Modified    ", "Size")
         for zinfo in self.filelist:
-            date = "%d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" % zinfo.date_time
+            date = "%d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" % zinfo.date_time[:6]
             print "%-46s %s %12d" % (zinfo.filename, date, zinfo.file_size)
 
     def testzip(self):
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ class ZipFile:
         the name of the file in the archive."""
         if not isinstance(zinfo_or_arcname, ZipInfo):
             zinfo = ZipInfo(filename=zinfo_or_arcname,
-                            date_time=time.localtime(time.time()))
+                            date_time=time.localtime(time.time())[:6])
             zinfo.compress_type = self.compression
         else:
             zinfo = zinfo_or_arcname
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1e742fb3740..04aa21fccf4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -414,6 +414,9 @@ Extension Modules
 
 - Bug #1653736: Fix signature of time_isoformat.
 
+- Issue #1698398 Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string
+  expected a tuple type of length six instead of time.struct_time object.
+
 - operator.count() now raises an OverflowError when the count reaches sys.maxint.
 
 - Bug #1575169: operator.isSequenceType() now returns False for subclasses of dict.