Is there any difference between datetime.today() and datetime.now()?
Using them lately has proved that there is none.
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3https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6545254/difference-between-system-datetime-now-and-system-datetime-today – kamote ulalo Feb 08 '18 at 08:36
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4`datetime.today` gives you non timezone aware time. `datetime.now` acccepts timezone info as argument and can provide tz spcific time and date – Arpit Solanki Feb 08 '18 at 08:36
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1What platform are you talking about? The example code could be from at least a dozen languages. – ndim Feb 08 '18 at 08:46
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I was talking about Python. Sorry for forgetting to mention the language. – Vaggelis Manousakis Sep 24 '18 at 22:29
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4Does this answer your question? [Python3.4 datetime.today() and datetime.now()](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32298332/python3-4-datetime-today-and-datetime-now) – Nicolò Gasparini May 13 '21 at 15:26
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@NicolòGasparini Absolutely! Since then I have learned a lot about DateTime as I went from python 2.7 to 3.9. – Vaggelis Manousakis May 14 '21 at 16:19
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DateTime.Today only gives today's date and default time as 12:00:00.
DateTime.Today : 1/1/2018 12:00:00 AM.
DateTime.Now gives current time of running thread with today's date. (Date and Time of the computer where code is running)
DateTime.Now : 1/1/2018 8:49:52 AM.
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7This is incorrect - the time for both reflects the current time - not 12:00:00 AM for DateTime.Today – Yitzchak Blank Mar 04 '21 at 04:54