Try not to use python built in functions and variables as local variables (ex: today, year, day). Also, the request from the user is to get today's date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

557 How do I get the current time in Python? The time module The time module provides functions that tell us the time in "seconds since the epoch" as well as other utilities.

266 You can use the datetime module for working with dates and times in Python. The strftime method allows you to produce string representation of dates and times with a format you specify.

There's also timedelta and tzinfo in there. One could just import datetime to get the whole package with all the submodules, but then method calls would look like …

Jan 13, 2009 · I have a Python datetime.datetime object. What is the best way to subtract one day?

import datetime print (datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%y")) The datetime.data object that it wants is on the "left" of the dot rather than the right. You need an instance of the datetime to …

For anyone trying to get the quarter of the fiscal year, which may differ from the calendar year, I wrote a Python module to do just this. Installation is simple.

Apr 11, 2013 · For Python 3, use datetime.now(timezone.utc) to get a timezone-aware datetime, and use .timestamp() to convert it to a timestamp.

I am trying to set a variable to equal today's date. I looked this up and found a related article: Set today date as default value in the model However, this didn't particularly answer my questi...

When you have an aware datetime object, you can use isoformat () and get the output you need. To make your datetime objects aware, you'll need to subclass tzinfo, like the second example …