Use datetime module to create datetime and do calculation
Creating a New Date
import datetime# from w w w . j a v a 2 s . com
print datetime.datetime.today()
d = datetime.datetime(2007,01,01)
print d
The code above generates the following result.
Create a datetime from year, month, day, hour, minute second.
from datetime import datetime
d = datetime(datetime.now().year, datetime.now().month, datetime.now().day,11, 59, 0 )
print d
The code above generates the following result.
Format a datetime value
from datetime import date
now = date.today()# ww w. ja v a 2 s. c o m
print now
print now.strftime("%m-%d-%y. %d %b %Y is a %A on the %d day of %B.")
The code above generates the following result.
Calendar arithmetic
from datetime import date
# from w ww . ja v a2 s . c o m
birthday = date(1964, 7, 31)
now = date(2006, 7, 31)
age = now - birthday
print age.days
The code above generates the following result.
