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The document provides an overview of Python's built-in datetime module, detailing its classes such as date, time, datetime, and timedelta. It includes examples of how to create and manipulate date and time objects, format them, and calculate time differences. Additionally, it explains methods like today(), strftime(), and strptime() for working with dates and times effectively.

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The document provides an overview of Python's built-in datetime module, detailing its classes such as date, time, datetime, and timedelta. It includes examples of how to create and manipulate date and time objects, format them, and calculate time differences. Additionally, it explains methods like today(), strftime(), and strptime() for working with dates and times effectively.

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Working With Dates & Times

Datetime

Python has a built-in datetime module which provides convenient objects


to work with dates and times.

Code
PYTHON

1 import datetime

Datetime classes

Commonly used classes in the datetime module are:

date class

time class

datetime class

timedelta class

Working with 'date' class

Representing Date

A date object can be used to represent any valid date (year, month and
day).

Code

PYTHON
1 import datetime
2
3 date_object = datetime.date(2019, 4, 13)
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4 print(date_object)

Output

2019-04-13

Date Object

Code
PYTHON

1 from datetime import date


2 date_obj = date(2022, 2, 31)
3 print(date_obj)

Output

ValueError: day is out of range for month

Today’s Date

Class method

today() returns a date object with today’s date.

Code
PYTHON

1 import datetime
2
3 date_object = datetime.date.today()
4 print(date_object)

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Output

2021-02-05

Attributes of Date Object

Code
PYTHON

1 from datetime import date


2
3 date_object = date(2019, 4, 13)
4 print(date_object.year)
5 print(date_object.month)
6 print(date_object.day)

Output

2019
4
13

Working with ‘time’ Class

Representing Time

A time object can be used to represent any valid time (hours, minutes and
seconds).

Code

PYTHON
1 from datetime import time
2
3 time_object = time(11, 34, 56)
4 print(time object)
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4 print(time_object)

Output

11:34:56

Attributes of Time Object

Code
PYTHON

1 from datetime import time


2
3 time_object = time(11, 34, 56)
4 print(time_object)
5 print(time_object.hour)
6 print(time_object.minute)
7 print(time_object.second)

Output

11:34:56
11
34
56

Working with ‘datetime’ Class

Datetime

The datetime class represents a valid date and time together.

Example - 1

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1 from datetime import datetime


2
3 date_time_obj = datetime(2018, 11, 28, 10, 15, 26)
4 print(date_time_obj.year)
5 print(date_time_obj.month)
6 print(date_time_obj.hour)
7 print(date_time_obj.minute)

Output

2018
11
10
15

Example - 2
It gives the current date and time

Code
PYTHON

1 import datetime
2
3 datetime_object = datetime.datetime.now()
4 print(datetime_object)

Output

2021-02-05 09:26:08.077473

DateTime object

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PYTHON

1 from datetime import datetime


2 date_time_obj = datetime(2018, 11, 28)
3 print(date_time_obj)

Output

2018-11-28 00:00:00

Formatting Datetime

The datetime classes have

strftime(format) method to format the datetime into any required format


like

mm/dd/yyyy

dd-mm-yyyy

Format Specifier Meaning Example

Year without century as a zero-


%y 19, 20, ...
padded decimal number
Year with century as a decimal
%Y 2019, 2020, ...
number

%b Month as abbreviated name Jan, Feb, ...

January,
%B Month as full name
February
Month as a zero-padded decimal
%m 01, 02, …, 12
number
Day of the month as a zero-
%d 01, 02, …, 31
padded decimal number

%a Weekday as abbreviated name Sun, Mon, ...

Sunday,
%A Weekday as full name
Monday, ...
Hour (24-hour clock) as a zero-
%H 00, 01, …, 23
padded decimal number
Hour (12-hour clock) as a zero-
%I 01, 02, …, 12
padded decimal number
%p AM or PM AM, PM

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Format Specifier Meaning Example

Minute as a zero-padded decimal


%M 00, 01, …, 59
number
Second as a zero-padded decimal
%S 00, 01, …, 59
number

Code
PYTHON

1 from datetime import datetime


2
3 now = datetime.now()
4 formatted_datetime_1 = now.strftime("%d %b %Y %I:%M:%S
5 print(formatted_datetime_1)
6
7 formatted_datetime_2 = now.strftime("%d/%m/%Y, %H:%M:%
8 print(formatted_datetime_2)

Output

05 Feb 2021 09:26:50 AM


05/02/2021, 09:26:50

Parsing Datetime

The class method

strptime() creates a datetime object from a given string representing


date and time.

Code

PYTHON
1 from datetime import datetime
2
3 date_string = "28 November, 2018"
4 print(date_string)
5
6 date_object = datetime.strptime(date_string, "%d %B, %
7 print(date object)
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7 print(date_object)

Output

28 November, 2018
2018-11-28 00:00:00

Working with ‘timedelta’ Class

Timedelta object represents duration.

Example 1

Code
PYTHON

1 from datetime import timedelta


2
3 delta = timedelta(days=365, hours=4)
4 print(delta)

Output

365 days, 4:00:00

Example 2

Code

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1 from datetime import timedelta, datetime
2 delta = timedelta(days=365)
3 current_datetime = datetime.now()
4 print(current_datetime)
5 next_year_datetime = current_datetime + delta
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6 print(next_year_datetime)

Output

2021-02-05 09:28:30.239095
2022-02-05 09:28:30.239095

Calculating Time Difference

Code
PYTHON

1 import datetime
2
3 dt1 = datetime.datetime(2021, 2, 5)
4 dt2 = datetime.datetime(2022, 1, 1)
5 duration = dt2 - dt1
6 print(duration)
7 print(type(duration))

Output

330 days, 0:00:00


<class 'datetime.timedelta'>

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