Arrow: Better dates & times for Python (https://arrow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
Questions tagged [python-arrow]
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Python Arrow milliseconds
I am trying to figure out one simple thing - how to convert arrow.Arrow object into milliseconds. I was reading following thread but it still not clear to me how to get a long number in milliseconds.
I want something like:
def get_millis(time:…
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Why is arrow.now() not in a range containing today's day?
I am testing the ability, in arrow, to check whether a date is in a range of dates:
>>> arrow.get('06/09/2017', 'DD/MM/YYYY') in arrow.Arrow.range('day', arrow.get('06/09/2017', 'DD/MM/YYYY'), arrow.get('06/07/2018', 'DD/MM/YYYY'))
True
>>>…
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Python Arrow Not Formatting Date Properly
I am using the Python Arrow package for formatting a date that I've got.
My input is:
datetime=2017-10-01T00:10:00Z and timezone=US/Pacific
My expected output is:
Sun 10/01 @ 6:10pm
I've tried a host of different date time conversions but I…
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How can I get the timezone from an Arrow date object
I need to retrieve the timezone from an Arrow date object
Let's take this as an example:
import arrow
arrow_date = arrow.get("2000-01-01", tzinfo="America/Toronto")
How can I return this tzinfo exactly as it is in the code above?
I tried the…
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Python3 returning TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object
I'm working on a simple time zone finder using Python3 and the Arrow library. I was working on it yesterday, and it had been up and running perfectly. I boot up today, though, and I'm getting this error: TypeError: expected string or bytes-like…
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How to get the number of seconds between two dates with arrow?
I use arrow to handle dates and discovered that I do not know how to get natively the number of seconds between two dates:
>>> import arrow
>>> first = arrow.get('2019-03-06')
>>> second = arrow.get('2019-02-06')
>>> (first-second).days
28
>>>…
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Why does django-q throw exception with arrow time
I'm trying to create a Django-q schedule and following the documents to use arrow for the next run I get the following error with the schedule:
schedule(
func='test.tasks.test_task',
name='test_task_nightly',
…
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Conversion of timezone of datetime.time
I am writing Python code using arrow library to convert timezone (which will be UTC by default) in the string (without date) to another timezone.
A sample string value is: 18:30+0000
The code snippet is :
start = '18:30+0000'
start_time =…
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Python Arrow timezone parsing
I'm trying to convert a string to DateTime object, The string:
Saturday 8th of August 2020 07:48:11 AM CDT
I'm using arrow package
arrow.get('Saturday 8th of August 2020 09:23:34 AM CDT', 'dddd Mt[h] of MMMM YYYY HH:mm:ss A ZZZ')
I'm getting the…
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How to use arrow's string parsing, and simultaneously set a timezone?
I would like, using arrow, to parse dates from strings. I do it via the documented way:
>>> arrow.get('2013-05-05 12:30:45', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')
The string is parsed with the timezone +00:00. Is it possible to…
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python arrow shifting hours
I am trying to add (shift) 6 hours to an arrow object, but somehow it seems to replace it instead:
>>> import arrow
>>> print(arrow.utcnow(),arrow.utcnow().replace(hour=+6))
2017-04-19T18:29:16.217239+00:00 2017-04-19T06:29:16.217304+00:00
The…
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Arrow locale not working
arrow.get(datetime.now(), 'Asia/Shanghai').date()
Returns datetime.date(2017, 3, 26) but it is 27th March there. How do I fix this?
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Time zone for china not working in python arrow
arrow.get('2016-01-01')
arrow.get(datetime.now(), 'US/Pacific')
arrow.get(datetime.now(), 'China')
arrow.get(datetime.now(), 'CT')
arrow.get(datetime.now(), 'CST')
So, the first two statements work, but the remaining 3 which are trying to convert…
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Different date results from arrow library in python
(Pdb) arrow.get('2016-01-01')
(Pdb) arrow.get('20160101')
So, I want my function to be able to use arrow library in python to parse date strings. However, as can be seen from…
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How to check for a "between 23:00 and 6:30" condition?
I would like to check with arrow(*) whether the current time is between 23:00 and 6:30.
I currently use naive checks in the code below but was wondering whether there is an arrow native construction available
import arrow
def check(now):
if…
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