Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Accessing date and time values

In recordsets, date and datetime values are represented as native Python objects. For example, when we look up the last admin  login date:

>>> self.browse(2).login_datedatetime.datetime(2018, 11, 2, 16, 47, 57, 327756)

Since the date and datetime values are Python objects, they have all of the manipulation features available for these objects.

Changed in Odoo 12The date and datetime field values are represented as Python objects, unlike previous Odoo versions, where date and datetime values were represented as text strings. These field type values can still be set using text representations, like in previous Odoo versions.

Dates and times are stored in the database in a naive Coordinated Universal Time (UTC ...