What methods are related to dates in PB?
In Python, methods related to dates mainly include:
- The datetime.date object represents a date with year, month, and day.
- Get the current date by using datetime.date.today().
- Create a date object based on the specified year, month, and day.
- The datetime.datetime object represents a date and time with year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.
- Get the current date and time using datetime.datetime.now().
- Create a date and time object based on the specified year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.
- datetime.timedelta is used to represent a time interval or duration.
- Create a timedelta object based on the specified time interval.
- The strftime() method formats a date object into a string with the specified format.
- The datetime.strftime(format) method is used to convert a date object into a string based on the specified format.
- strptime() function: parse a string into a date object.
- Create a date object by parsing a string according to the specified format.
- dateutil.parser.parse() method: parses a string into a date object without requiring a specific format.
- dateutil.parser.parse(date_string): parse the string into a date object.
- The date.weekday() method returns an integer (0-6, where 0 represents Monday) representing the day of the week for a given date object.
- The date.isoweekday() method returns an integer (1-7, with 1 being Monday) representing the day of the week for the given date object.
- date.replace() method: replace year, month, day in the date object.
- Replace the year, month, and day in the date object with the specified values.
These methods can assist us in dealing with operations related to dates, such as calculating, formatting, parsing, etc.