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The datetime package supplies classes for manipulating dates and times.
See description in the official Python docs.

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Types

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datetime

type Represents date and time information.

Fields

year
int
The year value of the datetime object.
month
int
The month value of the datetime object.
day
int
The day value of the datetime object.
hour
int
The hour value of the datetime object.
minute
int
The minute value of the datetime object.
second
int
The second value of the datetime object.
microsecond
int
The microsecond value of the datetime object.

Methods

__init__
(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond) -> None
Class constructor (initializer for the data type).
timestamp
() -> float
Returns the total number of seconds since the Unix epoch.
weekday
() -> int
Returns the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6.
__add__
(delta) -> datetime.datetime
+ operator for datetime objects.
__sub__
(delta) -> datetime.datetime
- operator for datetime objects.
__sub__
(other) -> datetime.timedelta
- operator for datetime objects.

Static methods

utcfromtimestamp
(timestamp) -> datetime.datetime
Returns the UTC datetime corresponding to the POSIX timestamp.
strptime
(date_string, format) -> datetime.datetime
Returns a datetime corresponding to date_string, parsed according to format.

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time

type Represents a time of day, independent of any particular day.

Fields

hour
int
The hour value of the time object.
minute
int
The minute value of the time object.
second
int
The second value of the time object.
microsecond
int
The microsecond value of the time object.

Methods

__init__
(hour, minute, second, microsecond) -> None
Class constructor (initializer for the data type).
__add__
(delta) -> datetime.datetime
+ operator for time objects.
__sub__
(delta) -> datetime.datetime
- operator for time objects.

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timedelta

type A timedelta object represents a duration, the difference between two datetimes.

Fields

days
int
The days value of the timedelta object.
seconds
int
The seconds value of the timedelta object.
microseconds
int
The microseconds value of the timedelta object.

Methods

__init__
(days, seconds, microseconds, milliseconds, minutes, hours, weeks) -> None
Class constructor (initializer for the data type).
total_seconds
() -> float
Returns the total number of seconds contained in the duration.