datetime

How can I create basic timestamps or dates? (Python 3.4)

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Ultimately you want to review the datetime documentation and become familiar with the formatting variables, but here are some examples to get you started: import datetime print(‘Timestamp: {:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}’.format(datetime.datetime.now())) print(‘Timestamp: {:%Y-%b-%d %H:%M:%S}’.format(datetime.datetime.now())) print(‘Date now: %s’ % datetime.datetime.now()) print(‘Date today: %s’ % datetime.date.today()) today = datetime.date.today() print(“Today’s date is {:%b, %d %Y}”.format(today)) schedule=”{:%b, %d %Y}”.format(today) + …

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Converting timezone-aware datetime to local time in Python

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In general, to convert an arbitrary timezone-aware datetime to a naive (local) datetime, I’d use the pytz module and astimezone to convert to local time, and replace to make the datetime naive: In [76]: import pytz In [77]: est=pytz.timezone(‘US/Eastern’) In [78]: d.astimezone(est) Out[78]: datetime.datetime(2010, 10, 30, 13, 21, 12, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo ‘US/Eastern’ EDT-1 day, 20:00:00 DST>) …

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Get current date in DD-Mon-YYY format in JavaScript/Jquery

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There is no native format in javascript for DD-Mon-YYYY. You will have to put it all together manually. The answer is inspired from : How do I format a date in JavaScript? // Attaching a new function toShortFormat() to any instance of Date() class Date.prototype.toShortFormat = function() { const monthNames = [“Jan”, “Feb”, “Mar”, “Apr”, …

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pytz and astimezone() cannot be applied to a naive datetime

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For pytz timezones, use their .localize() method to turn a naive datetime object into one with a timezone: start_date = local_tz.localize(start_date) For timezones without a DST transition, the .replace() method to attach a timezone to a naive datetime object should normally also work: start_date = start_date.replace(tzinfo=local_tz) See the localized times and date arithmetic of the …

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The specified value does not conform to the required format yyyy-MM-dd

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The specifications for the HTML5 date picker state that the date must be in the format yyyy-MM-dd (ISO format). This means that you DisplayFormatAttribute must be [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = “{0:yyyy-MM-dd}”, ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)] public string MyDate { get; set; } Alternatively you can manually add the format using @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.MyDate, “{0:yyyy-MM-dd}”, new { @type = …

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Get AM/PM for a date time in lowercase using only a datetime format

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I would personally format it in two parts: the non-am/pm part, and the am/pm part with ToLower: string formatted = item.PostedOn.ToString(“dddd, MMMM d, yyyy a\\t h:mm”) + item.PostedOn.ToString(“tt”).ToLower(); Another option (which I’ll investigate in a sec) is to grab the current DateTimeFormatInfo, create a copy, and set the am/pm designators to the lower case version. …

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Python datetime object show wrong timezone offset

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See: http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/676275-pytz-giving-incorrect-offset-timezone In the comments, someone proposes to use tzinfo.localize() instead of the datetime constructor, which does the trick. >>> tz = timezone(‘Asia/Kolkata’) >>> dt = tz.localize(datetime.datetime(2011, 6, 20, 0, 0, 0, 0)) >>> dt datetime.datetime(2011, 6, 20, 0, 0, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo ‘Asia/Kolkata’ IST+5:30:00 STD>) UPDATE: Actually, the official pytz website states that you should always …

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