# Date and Time

### Python Dates

A date in Python is not a data type of its own, but we can import a module named `datetime` to work with dates as date objects.

#### Example

Import the datetime module and display the current date:

```python
import datetime

x = datetime.datetime.now()
print(x)
```

### Date Output

When we execute the code from the example above the result will be:

`2022-12-05 02:47:27.810466`

The date contains year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and microsecond.

The `datetime` module has many methods to return information about the date object.

Here are a few examples, you will learn more about them later in this chapter:

#### Example

Return the year and name of weekday:

```python
import datetime

x = datetime.datetime.now()

print(x.year)
print(x.strftime("%A"))
```

### Creating Date Objects

To create a date, we can use the `datetime()` class (constructor) of the `datetime` module.

The `datetime()` class requires three parameters to create a date: year, month, day.

#### Example

Create a date object:

```python
import datetime

x = datetime.datetime(2020, 5, 17)

print(x)
```

The `datetime()` class also takes parameters for time and timezone (hour, minute, second, microsecond, tzone), but they are optional, and has a default value of `0`, (`None` for timezone).

### The strftime() Method

The `datetime` object has a method for formatting date objects into readable strings.

The method is called `strftime()`, and takes one parameter, `format`, to specify the format of the returned string:

#### Example

Display the name of the month:

```python
import datetime

x = datetime.datetime(2018, 6, 1)

print(x.strftime("%B"))// Some code
```