Arrow is a python library and command-line tool to genrerate, manipulate dates, times, timestamps.
With the use of arrow, we can also create, manipulate, format and convert dates, times, and timestamps, convert timezones, generates time spans, ranges, floors and ceilings with a less code.
We can install arrow using the pip command.
pip install arrowCreating Date and time:
To get the UTC time:
import arrow
utc = arrow.utcnow()Here UTC will give date and time, utc.year will give year value, utc.date() will dive only date object, a.time() will give only time
To Convert into specific timezone with a specific format:
arrow.utcnow().to('Asia/Calcutta').format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'),To convert date time object into arrow object with specific time zone:
arrow.get(b).to('Asia/Calcutta')
arrow.get('2013-05-05 12:30:45', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')To replace the date time, we can use replace function with hours, minutes, seconds attribute:
arrow.get(b).to(inst.timezone.name).replace(hours=24).format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')
arrow.replace(year=2016, month=2)
arw.replace(weeks=+2)To get the time difference in words, we can use the below function:
arrow.humanize()