24 - date.py

# Dates
"""A date in Python is not a data type of its own, but we can import a module named datetime to work with dates as date objects"""
import datetime

x = datetime.datetime.now()
print(x)

# Date Output
x = datetime.datetime.now()
print(x.year)
print(x.strftime("%A"))

# Creating Date Objects
"""To create a date, we can use the datetime() class (constructor) of the datetime module.
The datetime() class requires three parameters to create a date: year, month, day"""
x = datetime.datetime(2020, 5, 17)
print(x)

# The strftime() Method
"""The datetime object has a method for formatting date objects into readable strings.
The method is called strftime(), and takes one parameter, format, to specify the format of the returned string"""
x = datetime.datetime(2018, 6, 1)
print(x.strftime("%B"))

# Legal Date Format codes
"""
%a => Weekday, short version => Wed	
%A => Weekday, full version => Wednesday	
%w => Weekday as a number 0-6, 0 is Sunday => 3	
%d => Day of month 01-31	31	
%b => Month name, short version => Dec	
%B => Month name, full version => December	
%m => Month as a number 01-12	12	
%y => Year, short version, without century => 18	
%Y => Year, full version => 2018	
%H => Hour 00-23 => 17	
%I => Hour 00-12 => 05	
%p => AM/PM => PM	
%M => Minute 00-59 => 41	
%S => Second 00-59 => 08	
%f => Microsecond 000000-999999 => 548513	
%z => UTC offset => +0100	
%Z => Timezone => CST	
%j => Day number of year 001-366 => 365	
%U => Week number of year, Sunday as the first day of week,00-53 => 52	
%W => Week number of year, Monday as the first day of week,00-53 => 52	
%c => Local version of date and time => Mon Dec 31 17:41:00 2018	
%C => Century	20	
%x => Local version of date => 12/31/18	
%X => Local version of time => 17:41:00	
%% => A % character => %	
%G => ISO 8601 year => 2018	
%u => ISO 8601 weekday (1-7) => 1	
%V => ISO 8601 weeknumber (01-53) => 01
"""