Which version of Python was the original answer given in? Just typing datetime.datetime.now() in my Python 2.7 interactive console (IronPython hasn't updated yet) gives me the same behavior as the …

Since Python 3.9, you can use the built-in zoneinfo library to get timezones. Then once you get today's date as a datetime.datetime object, it's straightforward to convert to a string in the desired format …

Sep 19, 2019 · There's also timedelta and tzinfo in there. One could just import datetime to get the whole package with all the submodules, but then method calls would look like …

You can use the datetime module for working with dates and times in Python. The strftime method allows you to produce string representation of dates and times with a format you specify.

datetime.seconds and datetime.microseconds are capped to [0,86400) and [0,10^6) respectively. They should be used carefully if timedelta is bigger than the max returned value.

While this works for datetime, it doesn't work for date, because datetime is a subclass of date. For example if you try to test isinstance(my_datetime, datetime.date) it will return true, which you …

Jul 10, 2013 · What are these date-time formats? I need to convert them to the same format, to check if they are the same. These are just two coming from a separate data source, so I need to find a way to …

Dec 21, 2009 · Is there a built-in method for converting a date to a datetime in Python, for example getting the datetime for the midnight of the given date? The opposite conversion is easy: datetime …

Feb 2, 2012 · I want to create a list of dates, starting with today, and going back an arbitrary number of days, say, in my example 100 days. Is there a better way to do it than this? import datetime a = datet...

Sep 18, 2010 · How do I convert a datetime.datetime object (e.g., the return value of datetime.datetime.now()) to a datetime.date object in Python?