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What is the difference between python functions datetime.now() and datetime.today() ?
In [1]: from datetime import datetime
In [2]: datetime.now()
Out[2]: datetime.datetime(2015, 9, 11, 12, 8,28, 909842)
In [3]: datetime.today()
Out[3]: datetime.datetime(2015, 9, 11, 12,8, 45, 175839)
Thanks in advance.
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The DateTime. Now property returns the current date and time, for example 2011-07-01 10:09.45310 . The DateTime. Today property returns the current date with the time compnents set to zero, for example 2011-07-01 00:00.00000 .
Here, we have used datetime.now() to get the current date and time. Then, we used strftime() to create a string representing date and time in another format.
today() The today() method of date class under DateTime module returns a date object which contains the value of Today's date.
Python datetime Classesdatetime – Allows us to manipulate times and dates together (month, day, year, hour, second, microsecond). date – Allows us to manipulate dates independent of time (month, day, year).
datetime.datetime.now() takes tzinfo as keyword argument but datetime.today() does not take any keyword arguments.
By default, now() executes with datetime.datetime.now(tz=None)
As quoted in the docs: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.now
datetime.now() return the current local date and time. If optional argument tz is None or not specified, this is like today(), but, if possible, supplies more precision than can be gotten from going through a time.time() timestamp (for example, this may be possible on platforms supplying the C gettimeofday() function).
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