Date & Time

Links

• datetime - Basic date and time types

  • datetime.isoformat - convert to ISO 8601

  • datetime.astimezone - convert timezone

  • datetime.strptime - parse string to datetime

Examples

Now, ISO 8601 and UTC

Current date and time in ISO 8601 format:

from datetime import datetime
date = datetime.now().isoformat()
print(date)
# output example: 2023-07-08T07:13:01.359471

Current date and time in ISO 8601 format in seconds resolution:

from datetime import datetime
date = datetime.now().isoformat(timespec="seconds")
print(date)
# output example: 2023-07-08T07:13:44

Current date and time in ISO 8601 format normalized to UTC time:

from datetime import datetime
date = datetime.now().astimezone().isoformat()
print(date)
# output example: 2023-07-08T07:14:41.370299+02:00

Current date and time in ISO 8601 format normalized to UTC time in seconds resolution:

from datetime import datetime
date = datetime.now().astimezone().isoformat(timespec="seconds")
print(date)
# output example: 2023-07-08T07:17:02+02:00

Parsing

Parse date string (no time) to ISO 8601 format:

from datetime import datetime
date = datetime.strptime("04.01.1976", "%d.%m.%Y").date().isoformat()
print(date)
# output example: 1976-01-04