datetime.timedelta()
Published Jun 7, 2022
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The datetime.timedelta()
method returns an object representing a duration, resolved to microseconds, that occurs between date
, time
, and datetime
objects.
Syntax
datetime.timedelta(days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0)
All of the parameters are optional and default to zero.
Codebyte Example
We can perform different operations on a datetime
object.
For example, if we want to add 2 months to the current date, it can be done as below:
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