Just typing datetime.datetime.now() in my Python 2.7 interactive console (IronPython hasn't updated yet) gives me the same behavior as the newer example using print() in the answer. I haven't successfully replicated what the original answer shows (datetime.datetime (2009, 1, 6, 15, 8, 24, 78915)).
While this works for datetime, it doesn't work for date, because datetime is a subclass of date. For example if you try to test isinstance(my_datetime, datetime.date) it will return true, which you probably don't want. This applies to all class hierarchies, is instance will return true for a test of any subclass against a parent class.
How do I convert a numpy.datetime64 object to a datetime.datetime (or Timestamp)? In the following code, I create a datetime, timestamp and datetime64 objects. import datetime import numpy as np ...
Is there a built-in method for converting a date to a datetime in Python, for example getting the datetime for the midnight of the given date? The opposite conversion is easy: datetime has a .date()
50 Use the pandas to_datetime function to parse the column as DateTime. Also, by using infer_datetime_format=True, it will automatically detect the format and convert the mentioned column to DateTime.
Which one: datetime datetime2 is the recommended way to store date and time in SQL Server 2008+? I'm aware of differences in precision (and storage space probably), but ignoring those for now, is...
@Cadoiz - The datetime package has a few submodules - the date submodule (from datetime import date) which just deals with dates, the time submodule which deals with times, and the unfortunately-named datetime submodule which does both. There's also timedelta and tzinfo in there.
