Can I easily get datetime with lower resolution in Python?

Question

Obviously, I can get the date and time from datetime.datetime.now() , but I'm not really interested in seconds or especially microseconds.

Somewhere I can easily get Date + Hour + Minute?

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Wayne werner Dec 12 '12 at 11:08

1 answer

Steve mayne · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-12T11:18:54+0000

You can clear the second and microsecond component of the datetime value, for example:

 dt = datetime.datetime.now() #Now get rid of seconds and microseconds component: dt = dt.replace(second=0, microsecond=0)

This will allow you to compare datetimes with minute detail.

If you want to simply print the date without a second / microsecond component, use the appropriate format string:

 dt = datetime.datetime.now() print dt.strftime("%Y/%m/%d %H:%M") >>> '2012/12/12 12:12'