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Dealing With Date And Time in Python
Shashank Shanu
5 months ago
Table of Contents
- What is Tick?
- What is Time Tuple?
- How to get the Current Time in python?
- How to get the formatted time?
- How to get a calendar for a month?
- What is the calendar Module in Python?
- Some of the other Modules and Functions
Python program is capable of handling
date and time in different ways. Python consists of a module named DateTime
which is especially for handling different types of date and time format.
What is Tick?
Time intervals are represented in
units of seconds which will be the floating points numbers. A particular
instant of time is expressed in seconds since 12:00 am, January 1, 1970(epoch).
Example
#!/usr/bin/python3
import time; # importing time module.
num_ticks = time.time()
print ("Number of ticks since 12:00am, January 1, 1970:", num_ticks)
The output of the above code is:
Number of ticks since 12:00am, January 1, 1970: 1594014539.0613124With
ticks it’s easy to perform date arithmetic. But dates before the epochs cannot
be represented in this form. We also cannot also represent dates in the far
future in this way as the cutoff point for UNIX and Windows is sometime in
2038.
What is TimeTuple?
Python provides many different
time functions to handle time as a tuple of 9 numbers. Let’s see with an
example.
Example −
import time
print (time.localtime())
The output of the above code is:
time.struct_time(tm_year=2020, tm_mon=7, tm_mday=6, tm_hour=11, tm_min=28, tm_sec=10, tm_wday=0, tm_yday=188, tm_isdst=0)The
above output, a tuple is equivalent to struct_time structure. It consists of the below-mentioned attributes.
How to get the Current Time in python?
We can translate a time instantly
from seconds since the epoch floating-point value into a timetuple. We can do
it by passing the floating-point value to a function (e.g., local time) that
will return us a time-tuple with all the valid nine attributes.
#!/usr/bin/python3
import time
localtime = time.localtime(time.time())
print ("Local current time :", localtime)
The output of the above code is mentioned below, which could be formatted in any another presentable form if we want−
Local current time : time.struct_time(tm_year=2020, tm_mon=7, tm_mday=6, tm_hour=11, tm_min=35, tm_sec=2, tm_wday=0, tm_yday=188, tm_isdst=0)How to get the formatted time?
Let’s suppose we want to format
any time as per our requirements which is done with a simple method to get time
in a readable format with asctime() -
#!/usr/bin/python3
import time
localtime = time.asctime( time.localtime(time.time()) )
print ("Local current time :", localtime)
The output of the above code is:
Local current time : Mon Jul 6 11:50:46 2020How to get a calendar for a month?
Python has a calendar module
which provides a wide range of methods to get yearly and monthly calendars.
Let’s take an example of the month of July 2020.
#!/usr/bin/python3
import calendar
cal = calendar.month(2020, 7)
print ("Here is the calendar:")
print (cal)
The output of the above code is:
Here is the calendar:
July 2020
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
What is the Time Module in Python?
Python comes with a time module
which is provides functions to work with times and for converting different
times.
List of all the methods
available are mentioned below-
The two most important attributes are available with a time
module. Which are mentioned below −
What is the calendar Module in Python?
Calendar module in python provides different
calendar related functions which include a function to print a text calendar
for a given month or year.
By default, the calendar module takes Monday as the first
day of the week and Sunday as the last one. If you want to change this, we can
call the calendar.setfirstweekday() function.
List of functions available with the calendar module
−
Some of the other Modules and Functions
If
you are interested, then here you would find a list of other important modules and
functions to play with date & time in Python −
I hope you enjoyed reading this article and finally, you came
to know about Dealing With Date And Time in Python.
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