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This document provides an overview of the Python datetime module, detailing how to import it and use it for various date and time operations. It explains how to get the current time using the now() function and how to create datetime objects with specific date and time parameters. The tutorial includes examples demonstrating the creation of datetime objects with different levels of detail, from just the date to including microseconds.

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Python Datetime – Dates and Time

Python Datetime

Python datetime module can be used to work with dates and times.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to use datetime module for different operations involving date, day of the week,
seconds, minutes, current time, etc.

Import Datetime Module


To import datetime module, use the following import statement.

import datetime

Get Current Time


To get current time, use now() function as shown below.

import datetime

#get current time


x = datetime.datetime.now()

print(x)

Output

2019-09-12 12:18:06.255164

The output contains the current time in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.MICROS

Get Current Time


To get current time, use now() function as shown below.

import datetime

#get current time


x = datetime.datetime.now()

print(x)

Output

2019-09-12 12:18:06.255164
The output contains the current time in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.MICROS which has year, month,
day, hour, minute, second and micro-second respectively.

Create Date Object


In datetime module, date is an object. You can create a datetime object by passing year, month, day, hour,
minute, second and micro-second as arguments.

The syntax to create a datetime object is:

datetime.datetime(year, month, day[, hour[, minute[, second[, microsecond[, tzinfo]]]]])

The parameters year , month and day are mandatory while hour , minute , second ,
microsecond and timezone information tzinfo are optional. The optional parameters are by default 0 .

In the following example, you can observe how the default values for the optional parameters take effect.

import datetime

#create datetime object with year, month, day


x = datetime.datetime(2018, 5, 24)
print(x)

#create datetime object with year, month, day, hour


x = datetime.datetime(2018, 5, 24, 5)
print(x)

#create datetime object with year, month, day, hour, minute


x = datetime.datetime(2018, 5, 24, 5, 45)
print(x)

#create datetime object with year, month, day, hour, minute, second
x = datetime.datetime(2018, 5, 24, 5, 45, 34)
print(x)

#create datetime object with year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond
x = datetime.datetime(2018, 5, 24, 5, 45, 34, 542136)
print(x)

Output

2018-05-24 00:00:00
2018-05-24 05:00:00
2018-05-24 05:45:00
2018-05-24 05:45:34
2018-05-24 05:45:34.542136

Conclusion
In this Python Tutorial, we learned about Python datetime library.
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