date_and_time_basics.ipynb

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     "source": [
      "# Date And Time Basics\n",
      "\n",
      "This snippit was written by [Chris R. Albon](http://www.chrisralbon.com/) and is part of his collection of [well-documented Python snippits](https://github.com/chrisalbon/code_py). All code is written in Python 3 in iPython notebook and offered under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)."
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     "source": [
      "### Import modules"
     ]
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     "cell_type": "code",
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     "input": [
      "from datetime import datetime\n",
      "from datetime import timedelta"
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     "prompt_number": 24
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     "source": [
      "### Create a variable with the current time"
     ]
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     "cell_type": "code",
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     "input": [
      "now = datetime.now()\n",
      "now"
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       "prompt_number": 25,
       "text": [
        "datetime.datetime(2014, 5, 11, 20, 5, 11, 688051)"
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     "source": [
      "### The current year"
     ]
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "now.year"
     ],
     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [
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       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 26,
       "text": [
        "2014"
       ]
      }
     ],
     "prompt_number": 26
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    {
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     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "### The current month"
     ]
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    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "now.month"
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     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [
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       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 27,
       "text": [
        "5"
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     "prompt_number": 27
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     "source": [
      "### The current day"
     ]
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    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "now.day"
     ],
     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [
      {
       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 28,
       "text": [
        "11"
       ]
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     "prompt_number": 28
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     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "### The current hour"
     ]
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    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "now.hour"
     ],
     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [
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       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 29,
       "text": [
        "20"
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     "prompt_number": 29
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    {
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     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "### The current minute"
     ]
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    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "now.minute"
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     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [
      {
       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 30,
       "text": [
        "5"
       ]
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     "prompt_number": 30
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     "source": [
      "### The difference between two dates"
     ]
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "delta = datetime(2011, 1, 7) - datetime(2011, 1, 6)\n",
      "delta"
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     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [
      {
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       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 37,
       "text": [
        "datetime.timedelta(1)"
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    {
     "cell_type": "markdown",
     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "### The difference days"
     ]
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "delta.days"
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     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [
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       "prompt_number": 38,
       "text": [
        "1"
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     "source": [
      "### The difference seconds"
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     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "delta.seconds"
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     "language": "python",
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       "prompt_number": 39,
       "text": [
        "0"
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     "source": [
      "### Create a time"
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     "input": [
      "start = datetime(2011, 1, 7)"
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     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [],
     "prompt_number": 35
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "markdown",
     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "### Add twelve days to the time"
     ]
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "start + timedelta(12)"
     ],
     "language": "python",
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       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 36,
       "text": [
        "datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 19, 0, 0)"
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