Python Tutorial: Datetime Module - How to work with Dates, Times, Timedeltas, and Timezones

[@asadmoosvi]

In 'strftime,' the 'f' is for 'format,' and in 'strptime,' the 'p' is for 'parse.' Knowing this helps you remember them better. Great video by the way.

[@PoeLemic]

Brilliant. You should have an Einstein award. Thanks for helping me remember it. I'll never forget how to understand now.

[@mattiass4893]

Legend

[@Soulfulreader786]

Do u know how to sort date as earliest and latest .also how to convert to quarter and month

[@aarongrant1184]

and the 'str' is for 'string'

[@АлексейСоков-ь8и]

Ha, i used to think 'f' stands for 'from' (like 'get string from time') but still couldn't come up with what 'p' stands for 😅

[@roccodivincenzo1858]

Pride of you Corey! You're one of the few ones who do no sell shitty online courses but only share your knowledge with us

[@scene2much]

THIS! is the tutorial I've been looking for... makes timezone usage clear, and removes lots of confusion and uncertainty. Thumbs Up!

[@aaryareddy9275]

never commented on any video but trust me you are best at what you are doing. Great work. you make the topics crystal clear.

[@jslacasa]

8 years later and this is still so freaking useful!

[@toddstewart4135]

I am new to python. I have been stuck on a datetime problem for over a week now. I have been googling over and over, reading countless forum questions, etc. I watched this video and my problem was solved! Thank you!!!

[@Colstonewall]

Awesome tutorial, Corey. Datetimes is something I've never been good at, for lack of studying. But, rarely does anyone do a thorough tutorial on in, and that's where you've done a great job! Thanx

[@wishaalrk]

Thank you very much for the explanation. This is the best video about datetime I've seen so far, keep it up!

[@fordsrmaster]

Even though this is an older video, I found it to be a great help in learning the datetime library. Thanks for the video.

[@ronmann5810]

Man your the best. please keep the videos coming! For some reason I learn well from you, more so than anyone else on youtube.

[@df6148]

Thank you so much. Within the first 5 mins I was able to gather a lot of useful information that I can already apply to my code. THANK YOU

[@martinsteele2576]

Brilliant. Watched a few tutorials ... and the framework and concepts only came to light and shone through here. Credit to you. Thank you.

[@arindamdas4142]

8 years still one of the best explanation on internet

[@Spec970]

This might not mean much to you, but honestly, I'd like to thank you for taking time out of your probably cluttered schedule to help out new programmers like my self every day. Please keep doing what your doing, and know that yes, you ARE in fact impacting many, many peoples lives. I hope to see more OOP content soon as well as some more helpful programming terms! :)

[@coreyms]

That means more than you know. Thanks a lot... I really do appreciate it.

[@Spec970]

Corey Schafer Glad to hear that! I'd love to see some more OOP videos as well as a video on threads from you.

[@coreyms]

I'll be recording more OOP videos this weekend and hopefully will release some next week. I've been meaning to put together a video on threads and multiprocessing, but there are a few other videos I have in my queue before that. I will try to get around to those as soon as possible though! Thanks.

[@PoeLemic]

Yes, I even teach other programmers (in past), and Teacher here is really giving me so much knowledge quickly.

[@TheMheadCondition]

Love the explanation. Simple and easy to follow. I was confused about datetime until i saw ur video. Just wanted to say thanks

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Love your python tutorials. By far the best videos on the youtube IMO. Please keep the python videos coming. Your OOP tutorials has helped me understand classes very clearly. Thank you!

[@whatarewetoday4585]

You are quickly becoming my real teacher

[@kumaranda4720]

Happy Birthday, Corey, Just now I have seen and found your DOB (9/24) when you explain about DateTime. It is a coincidence.

[@OttoFazzl]

This is another amazing video! I am so glad you are making these videos to let people learn about Python!

[@MA-UTUBE-99]

Excellent videos. I am new to python. Used to do engineering/ scientific programming many many (*n! ) years ago. Used Fortran at that time. I am really enjoying learning Python with such clear videos and a user friendly language. May you "Live long and prosper " !!!!!

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love these videos, I'm in software development and been following all your videos since i started and they greatly improve my understanding .thanks for the video's

[@aaronbarber6816]

Awesome!!! Clear, concise, and quick. As a person new to python, this is exactly what I needed. It will probably take me a couple viewings. THANK YOU

[@rio-ty9vr]

ive been looking everywhere for good information like this, thank you

[@luqmanhakim7781]

hey Corey ! I just wanted to tell you that I immediately pause watching this video at minute 6:30 because you said your birthday is on 24 September which is the same with me. I'm just happy to have a same birthday date with an amazing person like you :) keep up the good content. I'm younger btw hehe

[@mylearnings7319]

I'm not getting the conversion error at 21:15 (when trying to convert naïve datetime to us time zone), I assume some improvisation in datetime module did happened in recent years, your views on this? @Corey Schafer

[@nashsok]

Had the same question as you! In the Python documentation: docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html "Changed in version 3.6: The astimezone() method can now be called on naive instances that are presumed to represent system local time."

[@twinkle2404]

This is the best video about datetime I've seen so far, keep it up....

[@SujeetRaj711]

Hi Corey, Even 3.5 years later. I found this to be the best explanation after searching around for 2 hrs.... Thank You :) Can you please make the video on Arrow though :)

[@dom-i-no2363]

BRO U LITERALLY JUST SAVED MY LIFE

[@sandgaara183]

Thanks, man, you reeeally helped me. Only after watching your video I was able to understand the datetime object properly.

[@manuelch4589]

Great! This is an excellent video for me. It helped me understand the intricacies of working with datetime and timezones. Much appreciated.

[@theslaphappychap]

Wow, this is one hell of a helpful video. Corey, thank you so much for this. So incredibly helpful and concise. You rock!

[@JorgeEscobarMX]

I love these videos, this one is long and still is just an overview of what can you do with dates and times on Python.

[@shubhamsaurbhsharma5163]

You made this on 26th July 2016 and I am watching it on same date with different year :)

[@IgnatzBratzbatz]

If I watched this video 8h ago I could save 8h of my life :/ very clearly explained, I appreciate.

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Wowwwww this is my first encounter with your videos... perfect format.. you are saying everything needed.. this is so perfect for how I learn... I hope you have more videos like this but I will watch this first till the end. Subbed !!!

[@Valentin439]

THANK you! The way of you teaching things and clear explanation it's so good. Wish you all the best!!

[@ramsrinivasan9600]

Corey: Awesome video on datetime module. You have cleared a lot of my doubts. Thank you very much.

[@MrDreadEnd]

It was an accident but in the comments you indicate datetimes can be added to one another to produce a timedelta. However datetimes can only be subtracted from one another to create a delta. See 6:00 lines 9 and 10

[@rebelwilson9936]

Been looking for some way to do time math and now i found it thank you sir

[@fantasyxpress7966]

this is a good 27 mins of my learning thank you sir

[@henrywoo1668]

Extremely helpful video !

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[@akira_asahi]

Thank you for the video. I am grateful for your time and contribution. Kind regards, Akira.

[@phantom..9650]

That was so comprehensive.Thanks for the toturial.

[@PoeLemic]

Thank you for showing this. I needed to learn this for my understanding of Python dates. This came at exact right time.

[@Austin9435]

Awesome tutorial! Highly recommended! Perfect speed on the information to really hammer it in. Thank you so much.

[@mumenyanyamu2524]

Hi Corey. This video is so good Keep up the good work

[@АлександрЖарков-у9ш]

great video, this helped me a lot, thanks, keep doing a videos like this, you are best )

[@korleone72]

the lesson is very helpful, thank you very much. it helped me a lot to understand the topic

[@vaibhavkrkm]

I wonder why someone would have disliked this video 😳 Anyways, love your amazing tutorials, pls keep it up 🤗👍

[@athisii_ekhe6167]

As always, the best tutorial for the topic. Thanks

[@mh7369]

Excellent tutorial, very clear and concise and has helped to me to better understand a very "grey area" subject. Thank you

[@vandrujemesk8651]

Ďakujem veľmi pekne za video. Super vysvetlené. Thank you very much for the video. Super explained.

[@husseinabukar7081]

Very interesting time and date zone formatting. (straight to the point saving your time!!) Great

[@RamiSobhani]

this video needs more views

[@carolinewu9657]

THANK YOU!!! Your tutorial is super helpful!!! You're amazing at explaining this stuff!

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Amazing explanation 🔥 I really impressed by your teaching method 🔥✌️

[@heshankumarasinghe3159]

Thank you... This video is helpful.... Gonna watch it again sometime.....

[@jerrylopez8117]

Good look at datetime , I will use this video as a reference when neeeded.

[@VishalSharma-jx9in]

Bahut sahi sir Thanks very much ❤️❤️

[@alexlandherr]

Very helpful, I’m writing a lot of stuff involving scheduling time lapse sequences and downloading files from a server. For my time lapse sequences I want the local time and UTC so that they can be inserted as a time stamp in the time lapse images. I’ve already fixed the UTC part but watched this for help.

[@narendrar9940]

Thanks for very informative and clearly explained videos. 5 Thumbs Ups from me!

[@juergenneumann9280]

Happy Birthday! Thank's for the nice and time saving tutorial!

[@jayavardhan0760]

Enjoyed Every Bit of video. Thanks Man

[@himanshuagrawal2014]

excellent information in very precise manner, Stay Blessed brother !!

[@ahmadjavid4068]

Simple and useful! You're a legend Corey!

[@RSlayer001]

I'm Like #4,500 apparently Great stuff man!

[@alexisdiaz4217]

Great refresher! Thank you!

[@brendan3966]

This is great. The datetime module is surprisingly confusing.

[@lunatite6451]

Thanks excellent tutorial! Gathered a lot of information watching this.

[@glorynwogu7905]

Thank you so much for your detailed explanation

[@ST-wx6vw]

Possible Error: Line# 10 at time 07:00. Line #10 says: timedelta = date1 + date2. Actually, subtraction of dates results in timedelta but addtion gives error. For example: >>> print(f'x is {x} and y is {y}') x is 2020-01-07 and y is 2020-01-21 >>> print(f'x-y is {x-y} and y is {type(x-y)}') x-y is -14 days, 0:00:00 and y is >>> print(x+y) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'datetime.date' and 'datetime.date' >>>

[@rajeshsingha9940]

Awesome tutorial. Leaned a lot. Thanks, man.

[@morningstar2728]

Thanks alot Corey!.. may you have great success ahead!

[@kkevinluke]

Thank you. My goto channel for py modules.

[@fancyaristocrat7450]

Thanks mate, this was of really great help.

[@adnanalam482]

That's superb , it was too much easy and informative

[@dipdowel]

Hi Corey and thank you for another great tutorial. I wish you mentioned daylight savings as well, I am sure many developers would have found it useful :)

[@shreyashkashyap]

Thanks a lot Sir. I was searching for this.

[@DJ-ct6so]

Nice video Corey, very instructive. And you're a Libra, just like me. :)

[@Raj-sz9pg]

There is also .totalseconds() function. And there will be more but this video covered useful things for a analysis field of work

[@snpsforyomom]

just started watching your videos, and I'm learning a lot! thanks Corey!

[@omkarroxx222]

Thanks a lot, Your Video helped me a lot . i thought datetime module was difficult, but it was not that hard at all.. thank you so much

[@kiizasamuel5026]

Great, You nailed it It’s so helpful thank you

[@zachfenton608]

thanks, you really helped me understand how it works

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[@slambodianjones]

Great video, helped on part of my project.

[@Tamer_Gomaa]

Great detailed explanation, keep going 👍🏼

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Very interesting video, it has been a great help for me. Thanks for sharing...

[@ChrisBFWilliams]

I was bored, so I decided to watch a Python video. I'm a Java developer by profession and it would be nice if you had videos in that arena.

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Hello Corey, thanks very much for this video. it has helped a lot in the project i am working on.

[@kenfitz1]

Thank you for your clear and helpful video. This really helps me in my Programming for Business class!!!

[@morarsebi1721]

This was great ! :) i solved a date time calculus very fast , thanks to this :) ;)

[@tymothylim6550]

Thank you very much for this video! It was really educational and I learnt a lot! :)

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[@WillHampson]

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[@daze8410]

Thanks I was able to resolve a bug that was reliant on sunset/sunrise times

[@SciHeartJourney]

This video was awesome; thank you! I'm sure the help file will tell us how to grab the individual time components: date, hour, minute, second. In LabVIEW and other programming environments, there are functions that give you the time from a fixed point in the past as a reference point. I think the date is sometime in the January 1st 1980's, expressed as a number of seconds. It's the most numerically compatible way to deal with dates. I suspect Python has a similar time function too.