Python - Date Time

To work with dates in Python import a module 'datetime'

The date contains year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and microsecond.

Example 1: Display current date time

import datetime

x = datetime.datetime.now()
print(x)

Example 2: Same as example 1.

from datetime import datetime

x = datetime.now()
print(x)

To create a date, we can use the datetime() class (constructor) of the datetime module. The datetime() class requires three parameters to create a date: year, month, day.

import datetime

x = datetime.datetime(2022, 5, 17)
print(x)

The datetime() class also takes parameters for time and timezone (hour, minute, second, microsecond, tzone), but they are optional, and has a default value of 0, (None for timezone).

The datetime object has a method called strftime(), for formatting date objects into readable strings.

import datetime

x = datetime.datetime.now()

print(x.year)
print(x.strftime("%Y"))