Python's built-in datetime module provides classes for manipulating dates and times in both simple and complex ways.
Python's built-in datetime module provides classes for manipulating dates and times in both simple and complex ways.
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What's the most elegant way to get the end of the day (datetime)?
I'm currently writing some reporting code that allows users to optionally specify a date range. The way it works (simplified), is:
A user (optionally) specifies a year.
A user (optionally) specifies a month.
A user (optionally) specifies a…
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What is the decimal part in timestamp?
I run the following code in python,
import time
print(time.time())
and the output was:
1557990717.6383634
Can someone explain the two parts to the left and right of the decimal point. Why's there a decimal point?
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using the timedelta.round() function
I've seen multiple questions asked on how to define your own function that does things similar to this, but I can't figure out how to use timedelta's built in function. Does anyone have an example of a use of timedelta.round()? I have timedelta…
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Saving a local datetime offset the time by 4 minutes
I'm trying to modify a datetime based on a timezone on save and on load the following way:
An input datetime, along with a input timezone are sent to the server and the server should update the datetime to reflect the timezone. So when it saves in…
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Python Plotly How to remove datetime gaps in candle stick chart?
I am trying to remove the datetime gaps in my candlestick (the gaps are the time periods when the stock market is closed, hence there are not data). Can't seem to find a good solution for using plotly graph object. Is there a feasible way to do…
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infer_datetime_format with parse_date taking more time
I was going through pandas documentation. And it quoted that
I have a sample csv data…
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Convert UTC timezone to IST python
The following code line gives me the UTC timing on the production server.
timestamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f')
Please suggest a way to convert above UTC timezone to IST(Indian Standard Time) timing.
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Datetime strptime issue with a timezone offset with colons
Currently we are working on an application which is trying to calculate the travel time of a route from a to b, using the 2.db.transport.rest API.
Unfortunatly we are receiving timestamps with a timezone offset from that API, such as +01:00. What…
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Python Timedelta64 convert days to months
I have a Pandas dataframe with 2 columns representing a start-timestamp and an end-timestamp:
start end
2016-06-13 2016-07-20
The datatype of these columns is datetime64[ns].
I now want to create a new column showing the difference in…
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Python select random date in current year
In Python can you select a random date from a year. e.g. if the year was 2010 a date returned could be 15/06/2010
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datetime: conversion from string with timezone name not working
I have the following string "2017-03-30 08:25:00CET" which I want to convert to a datetime tz-aware object.
According this SO question, from python 3.2 it can be done using only datetime module. In addition, from the documentation, I see
%z | UTC…
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What's the difference between pytz.utc and dt.timezone.utc?
I am writing a library and I don't want to require pytz since the library itself doesn't know or care about timezones (it's reading and writing data in the form of Unix timestamps, which don't have any timezone information associated with them). I…
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What's the best way to store a python timedelta value in mysql?
I need to store an uptime in a mysql environment.
The uptime can vary from a few hours to more than one year. I was considering using a DATETIME type for mysql.
I'm working with python, and the uptime is obtained from
def convertdate(lastrestart):
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Python ImportError: sys.meta_path is None, Python is likely shutting down
When using __del__
datetime.date.today() throws ImportError: sys.meta_path is None, Python is likely shutting down
import datetime
import time
import sys
class Bug(object):
def __init__(self):
print_meta_path()
def…
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Python: how to compute date ranges from a list of dates?
I have a list of dates, for example:
['2011-02-27', '2011-02-28', '2011-03-01', '2011-04-12', '2011-04-13', '2011-06-08']
How do I find the contiguous date ranges contained within those dates? In the above example, the ranges should…
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