How to increment a datetime by one day?
PythonDatetimePython Problem Overview
How to increment the day of a datetime?
for i in range(1, 35)
date = datetime.datetime(2003, 8, i)
print(date)
But I need pass through months and years correctly? Any ideas?
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
date = datetime.datetime(2003,8,1,12,4,5)
for i in range(5):
date += datetime.timedelta(days=1)
print(date)
Solution 2 - Python
Incrementing dates can be accomplished using timedelta objects:
import datetime
datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(days=1)
Look up timedelta objects in the Python docs: http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html
Solution 3 - Python
Here is another method to add days on date using dateutil's relativedelta.
from datetime import datetime
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
print 'Today: ',datetime.now().strftime('%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S')
date_after_month = datetime.now()+ relativedelta(day=1)
print 'After a Days:', date_after_month.strftime('%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S')
Output:
> Today: 25/06/2015 20:41:44 > > After a Days: 01/06/2015 20:41:44
Solution 4 - Python
All of the current answers are wrong in some cases as they do not consider that timezones change their offset relative to UTC. So in some cases adding 24h is different from adding a calendar day.
Proposed solution
The following solution works for Samoa and keeps the local time constant.
def add_day(today):
"""
Add a day to the current day.
This takes care of historic offset changes and DST.
Parameters
----------
today : timezone-aware datetime object
Returns
-------
tomorrow : timezone-aware datetime object
"""
today_utc = today.astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc)
tz = today.tzinfo
tomorrow_utc = today_utc + datetime.timedelta(days=1)
tomorrow_utc_tz = tomorrow_utc.astimezone(tz)
tomorrow_utc_tz = tomorrow_utc_tz.replace(hour=today.hour,
minute=today.minute,
second=today.second)
return tomorrow_utc_tz
Tested Code
# core modules
import datetime
# 3rd party modules
import pytz
# add_day methods
def add_day(today):
"""
Add a day to the current day.
This takes care of historic offset changes and DST.
Parameters
----------
today : timezone-aware datetime object
Returns
-------
tomorrow : timezone-aware datetime object
"""
today_utc = today.astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc)
tz = today.tzinfo
tomorrow_utc = today_utc + datetime.timedelta(days=1)
tomorrow_utc_tz = tomorrow_utc.astimezone(tz)
tomorrow_utc_tz = tomorrow_utc_tz.replace(hour=today.hour,
minute=today.minute,
second=today.second)
return tomorrow_utc_tz
def add_day_datetime_timedelta_conversion(today):
# Correct for Samoa, but dst shift
today_utc = today.astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc)
tz = today.tzinfo
tomorrow_utc = today_utc + datetime.timedelta(days=1)
tomorrow_utc_tz = tomorrow_utc.astimezone(tz)
return tomorrow_utc_tz
def add_day_dateutil_relativedelta(today):
# WRONG!
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
return today + relativedelta(days=1)
def add_day_datetime_timedelta(today):
# WRONG!
return today + datetime.timedelta(days=1)
# Test cases
def test_samoa(add_day):
"""
Test if add_day properly increases the calendar day for Samoa.
Due to economic considerations, Samoa went from 2011-12-30 10:00-11:00
to 2011-12-30 10:00+13:00. Hence the country skipped 2011-12-30 in its
local time.
See https://stackoverflow.com/q/52084423/562769
A common wrong result here is 2011-12-30T23:59:00-10:00. This date never
happened in Samoa.
"""
tz = pytz.timezone('Pacific/Apia')
today_utc = datetime.datetime(2011, 12, 30, 9, 59,
tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
today_tz = today_utc.astimezone(tz) # 2011-12-29T23:59:00-10:00
tomorrow = add_day(today_tz)
return tomorrow.isoformat() == '2011-12-31T23:59:00+14:00'
def test_dst(add_day):
"""Test if add_day properly increases the calendar day if DST happens."""
tz = pytz.timezone('Europe/Berlin')
today_utc = datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 25, 0, 59,
tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
today_tz = today_utc.astimezone(tz) # 2018-03-25T01:59:00+01:00
tomorrow = add_day(today_tz)
return tomorrow.isoformat() == '2018-03-26T01:59:00+02:00'
to_test = [(add_day_dateutil_relativedelta, 'relativedelta'),
(add_day_datetime_timedelta, 'timedelta'),
(add_day_datetime_timedelta_conversion, 'timedelta+conversion'),
(add_day, 'timedelta+conversion+dst')]
print('{:<25}: {:>5} {:>5}'.format('Method', 'Samoa', 'DST'))
for method, name in to_test:
print('{:<25}: {:>5} {:>5}'
.format(name,
test_samoa(method),
test_dst(method)))
Test results
Method : Samoa DST
relativedelta : 0 0
timedelta : 0 0
timedelta+conversion : 1 0
timedelta+conversion+dst : 1 1
Solution 5 - Python
This was a straightforward solution for me:
from datetime import timedelta, datetime
today = datetime.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
tomorrow = datetime.today() + timedelta(1)
Solution 6 - Python
> Most Simplest solution
from datetime import timedelta, datetime
date = datetime(2003,8,1,12,4,5)
for i in range(5):
date += timedelta(days=1)
print(date)
Solution 7 - Python
You can also import timedelta so the code is cleaner.
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
date = datetime.now() + timedelta(seconds=[delta_value])
Then convert to date to string
date = date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
Python one liner is
date = (datetime.now() + timedelta(seconds=[delta_value])).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
Solution 8 - Python
A short solution without libraries at all. :)
d = "8/16/18"
day_value = d[(d.find('/')+1):d.find('/18')]
tomorrow = f"{d[0:d.find('/')]}/{int(day_value)+1}{d[d.find('/18'):len(d)]}".format()
print(tomorrow)
# 8/17/18
Make sure that "string d" is actually in the form of %m/%d/%Y so that you won't have problems transitioning from one month to the next.