How to modify datetime.datetime.hour in Python?

Question

I want to calculate the seconds between now and tomorrow 12:00. So I need to get tomorrow 12:00 datetime object.

This is pseudo code:

today_time = datetime.datetime.now() tomorrow = today_time + datetime.timedelta(days = 1) tomorrow.hour = 12 result = (tomorrow-today_time).total_seconds() 

But it will raise this error:

AttributeError: attribute 'hour' of 'datetime.datetime' objects is not writable 

How can I modify the hour or how can I get a tomorrow 12:00 datetime object?

Answer 1

Use the replace method to generate a new datetime object based on your existing one:

tomorrow = tomorrow.replace(hour=12) 

Return a datetime with the same attributes, except for those attributes given new values by whichever keyword arguments are specified. Note that tzinfo=None can be specified to create a naive datetime from an aware datetime with no conversion of date and time data.

Answer 2

Try this:

tomorrow = datetime.datetime(tomorrow.year, tomorrow.month, tomorrow.day, 12, 0, 0)