Python - Get current time in numpy datetime64 format

Question

How do I get the current date and time using numpy datetime64?

And given a numpy array in which each element is a datetime64 value, how do I get the difference in seconds?

Answer 1

You could also do this to get the current date and time:

import numpy as np 

np.datetime64('today') # today's date
np.datetime64('now') # timestamp right now