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 …

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 …

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 …

10 When substracting two datetime objects you will get a new datetime.timedelta object.

Jun 16, 2013 · How can I convert a DataFrame column of strings (in dd/mm/yyyy format) to datetime dtype?

Mar 7, 2011 · I have a date string in following format 2011-03-07 how to convert this to datetime in python?

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.

50 Use the pandas to_datetime function to parse the column as DateTime. Also, by using infer_datetime_format=True, it will automatically detect the format and convert the mentioned column …

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 …

If you are using Python 3.6 or below, and you only care about the time value (not the timezone), then you can use datetime.timestamp() and datetime.fromtimestamp() instead;