Python 3 - Second Edition

15.2    Object-Oriented Date Management: datetime

The datetime module is more abstract than the time module—and also more convenient to use due to its own time and date types.

Four data types are provided (see Table 15.5), which we’ll describe individually in the following sections.

Data Types of datetime		Section
date	A data type for storing dates.	Section 15.2.1
time	Saves points in time for a specific day.	Section 15.2.2
datetime	The combination of datetime.date and datetime.time to store times that include both a date and a time.	Section 15.2.3
timedelta	It’s possible to create differences between datetime.date and datetime.datetime instances. The results of such subtractions are datetime.timedelta objects. ...