Python Dates

We are having datetime module to work in the datetime objects in Python. We just need to import datetime module .
Let's understand this by the following program :-

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Output of this Program

It will give you exactly the current date and time.

Creating date objects

If we want to create a date than we have to used the datetime class (constructor) of datetime module. And it basically requires three parameters like - year, month, day.
Let’s create a date object and understand it further :-:-

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Output of this Program

We can see this datetime() class is not only taking the date-time format but also the time and time zone format.

The strftime () method

We can also format our date time into the readable string , and this method is only known as strftime() method.

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Output of this Program

So through these parameters we can check which date , day ,year and etc.

There are some more legal format codes which are described as follows :-

Directive	Description	Example
%a	Weekday, short version	Wed
%A	Weekday, full version	Wednesday
%w	Weekday as a number 0-6, 0 is Sunday	3
%d	Day of month 01-31	31
%b	Month name, short version	Dec
%B	Month name, full version	December
%m	Month as a number 01-12	12
%y	Year, short version, without century	18
%Y	Year, full version	2018
%H	Hour 00-23	17
%I	Hour 00-12	05
%p	AM/PM	PM
%M	Minute 00-59	41
%S	Second 00-59	08
%f	Microsecond 000000-999999	548513
%z	UTC offset	+0100
%Z	Timezone	CST
%j	Day number of year 001-366	365
%U	Week number of year, Sunday as the first day of week, 00-53	52
%W	Week number of year, Monday as the first day of week, 00-53	52
%c	Local version of date and time	Mon Dec 31 17:41:00 2018
%x	Local version of date	12/31/18
%X	Local version of time	17:41:00
%%	A % character	%