Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

Date and Time

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Time-zone-aware datetime—retrieving a reliable value for the current datetime
• Parsing dates—how to parse dates according to the ISO 8601 format
• Saving dates—how to store datetimes
• From timestamp to datetime—converting to and from timestamps
• Displaying dates in a user format—formatting dates according to our user language
• Going to tomorrow—how to compute a datetime that refers to tomorrow
• Going to next month—how to compute a datetime that refers to next month
• Weekdays—how to build a date that refers to the n^th Monday/Friday of the month
• Workdays—how to get workdays in a time range
• Combining dates and times—making a datetime out of a date and time