How to change a system date with python on windows

Question

I'm trying to change system date, adding 8 days to current date. But unfortunately I am receiving

TypeError: SetSystemTime() takes exactly 8 arguments (1 given)

My code is:

import datetime
import win32api

now = datetime.datetime.now()
print (now)
tomorrow = now + datetime.timedelta(days = 8)
print (tomorrow)
win32api.SetSystemTime(tomorrow)

So I need to turn my 'tomorrow' valuable into a string with 8 arguments. or maybe there is a better function than SetSystemTime. Do you have any ideas?

Possible duplicate of [Python module to change system date and time](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12081310/python-module-to-change-system-date-and-time) — l'L'l, Apr 07 '19 at 07:15

Pankaj Kumar Gautam · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-07T08:51:41.100

In reference to the method win32api.SetSystemTime all the arguments must be of type integer.

import datetime
import win32api

now = datetime.datetime.now()
print (now)
tomorrow = now + datetime.timedelta(days = 8)
print (tomorrow)

year = int(tomorrow.year)
month = int(tomorrow.month)
# Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6.
dayOfWeek = int(tomorrow.weekday())
day = int(tomorrow.day)
hour = int(tomorrow.hour)
minute = int(tomorrow.minute)
second = int(tomorrow.second)
millseconds = int((tomorrow.microsecond)/1000)

win32api.SetSystemTime(year, month , dayOfWeek , day , hour , minute , second , millseconds)

How to change a system date with python on windows

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