Print out datetime as DD-MM-YYYY

Question

I'm making a program that will print out a set of savings for tomorrow only, and i wanted to specify what date tomorrow was, which i did like this:

Tomorrow = datetime.date.today() + datetime.timedelta(days=1)

Which gives the outpu:

2016-04-11

as you can see, it does give tomorrows date like planned, except it does it in the YYYY-MM-DD format, which is my issue. is there a way to have tomorrows date printed in the DD-MM-YYYY format? Cheers

@n1c9 because the answer is easily found by a google search or looking at the `datetime` docs. — MattDMo, Apr 09 '16 at 22:24
I respectfully disagree, Matt. I have been searching using google and have not found how to do this until now. — DataGirl, Apr 25 '18 at 17:46

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 09 '16 at 22:07

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Tomorrow.strftime('%d-%m-%Y') should sort you. Hope that helped.

answered Apr 09 '16 at 22:07

hd1

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Thanks, It worked a charm :). I tried that before, but I'm dumb and didn't set it out right, so it didn't affect it at all xD Thanks very much! – Nash Apr 09 '16 at 22:11
Would you please click the green check as well? – hd1 Apr 09 '16 at 22:13
Done :). I had to wait for it to let me first :) – Nash Apr 09 '16 at 22:18

Wen-Shan Wendy Chow · Answer 2 · 2017-11-07T00:00:43.390

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Here is my answer:

dt = "9'/30'/2017  16:40:09"           # assume dt is the datetime variable
date, space, time = dt.partition(' ')  # use dt.partition to separate date and time by space
mm, slash, str = date.partition('/')   # use date.partition to separate mm and str by slash, mm is found
dd, slash, yyyy = str.partition('/')   # use str.partition to separate dd and yyyy by slash, dd and yyyy are found
new_date = dd + '/' + mm + '/' + yyyy  # set new_date in any desired format 
# new_date = 30/9/2017

edited Nov 07 '17 at 00:00

answered Nov 06 '17 at 23:48

Wen-Shan Wendy Chow

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I ran this code and it didn't print the date out as dd/mm/yyyy. – DataGirl Apr 25 '18 at 18:12

Print out datetime as DD-MM-YYYY

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