How to truncate the time on a datetime object?
I think this is what you're looking for...
>>> import datetime>>> dt = datetime.datetime.now()>>> dt = dt.replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0) # Returns a copy>>> dtdatetime.datetime(2011, 3, 29, 0, 0)
But if you really don't care about the time aspect of things, then you should really only be passing around date
objects...
>>> d_truncated = datetime.date(dt.year, dt.month, dt.day)>>> d_truncateddatetime.date(2011, 3, 29)
Four years later: another way, avoiding replace
I know the accepted answer from four years ago works, but this seems a tad lighter than using replace
:
dt = datetime.date.today()dt = datetime.datetime(dt.year, dt.month, dt.day)
Notes
- When you create a
datetime
object without passing time properties to the constructor, you get midnight. - As others have noted, this assumes you want a datetime object for later use with timedeltas.
- You can, of course, substitute this for the first line:
dt = datetime.datetime.now()