Because timedelta objects can be passed seconds, milliseconds, days, etc... so you need to specify what are you passing in (this is why you use the explicit key).

Warning: Caveat about built-in .seconds and .microseconds datetime.seconds and datetime.microseconds are capped to [0,86400) and [0,10^6) respectively. They should be …

Sep 19, 2008 · There is timedelta class for manipulations with date and time. datetime minus datetime gives timedelta, datetime plus timedelta gives datetime, two datetime objects cannot …

I need to check if n years have been since some date. I'm using timedelta from the datetime module and I don't know how to convert it to years.

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Jan 28, 2019 · I looked at the datetime and datetime.timedelta docs class datetime.timedelta (days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0)¶. …

Jan 13, 2009 · I have a Python datetime.datetime object. What is the best way to subtract one day?

For example, in the following example, the time difference between the two datetimes is 5 hours and if we use timedelta.days to get the number of days, that difference becomes 0 days or -1 …

Jan 7, 2013 · A datetime.timedelta corresponds to the difference between two dates, not a date itself. It's only expressed in terms of days, seconds, and microseconds, since larger time units …

I have a date "10/10/11(m-d-y)" and I want to add 5 days to it using a Python script. Please consider a general solution that works on the month ends also. I am using following code: