How to set a variable to be “Today's” date in Python/Pandas

Question

I am trying to set a variable to equal today\'s date.

I looked this up and found a related article:

Set today date as default value in the model

Howe

Answer 1

You can also look into pandas.Timestamp, which includes methods like .now and .today. Unlike pandas.to_datetime('now'), pandas.Timestamp.now() won't default to UTC:

  import pandas as pd

  pd.Timestamp.now() # will return California time
  # Timestamp('2018-12-19 09:17:07.693648')

  pd.to_datetime('now') # will return UTC time
  # Timestamp('2018-12-19 17:17:08')

Answer 2

Using pandas: pd.Timestamp("today").strftime("%m/%d/%Y")

Answer 3

import datetime
def today_date():
    '''
    utils:
    get the datetime of today
    '''
    date=datetime.datetime.now().date()
    date=pd.to_datetime(date)
    return date
Df['Date'] = today_date()

this could be safely used in pandas dataframes.

Answer 4

pd.datetime.now().strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

this will give output as '11/02/2019'

you can use add time if you want

pd.datetime.now().strftime("%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S")

this will give output as '11/02/2019 11:08:26'

strftime formats

Answer 5

Easy solution in Python3+:

import time


todaysdate = time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

#with '.' isntead of '/'
todaysdate = time.strftime("%d.%m.%Y")

Answer 6

i got the same problem so tried so many things but finally this is the solution.

import time 

print (time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y"))