How to use pendulum? | Time Pack

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Published: 19 Feb 2018 › Updated: 19 Feb 2018 How to use pendulum? | Time Pack

How to use pendulum? | Time Pack

It's a python library. It solves complex time operations. It is suitable for the concepts of tomorrow and yesterday. I have a lot of history problems in my projects. With this package, the history problem is solved very simply.

What Will I Learn?

Do take forward and back dates
Simply set the date according to countries
Format the date
Parse
Doing weekly jobs
Understand future and past concepts

Supported versions

Python2.7+ or Python3.4+

Difficulty

Basic

What is pendulum?

It is a package for the Python language. Time solves your problem. It deals with complicated history problems. It can be treated as a boolean expression. There is a wide time zone support. Writing and meaning is easy. There is extensive python support.

How to install pendulum?

Very easy

pip install pendulum

its done!

How to use ?

You can find the time zone on this link. Time-zone list

Methods

ID	Method	Description
1	pendulum	Base class. Everything goes through it.
2	pendulum.create()	Creates a date with the information provided.
3	pendulum.now()	It creates the current date.
4	.tomorrow()	It creates the date of tomorrow.
5	.yesterday()	It creates the date of yesterday.
6	.tomorrow('Europe/London')	Time zone can be customized.
7	.from_format(time, format, tz)	Can be created with custom formats.
8	.to_datetime_string()	Returns the date as a string
9	.add(hours=-1)	It shows 1 hour back.
10	.add(days=1)	It shows 1 day nex.
11	.diff(dt2)	Finds the difference between two dates.
12	.parse('1994-03-16 22:00:00')	parse to datetime format
13	.parse('1994-03-16 22:00:00', tz='Europe/London')	Time zone can be customized.
14	.is_future()	Is the future a date?
15	.is_past()	Is the past a date?
16	.is_weekday()	Is the date in the weekday?
17	.is_weekend()	Is the date in the weekend?

These methods generally solve many problems. But is has more detail. Now let's use the above methods. I will describe a list by number.

Example

Time Create

You have time zone control. Do not parameterize the method almost does the same operation. (create | now)

pendulum.create()
# <Pendulum 2018-02-19T00:00:00 00:00>

pendulum.now()
# <Pendulum 2018-02-19T23:42:15.660781 03:00>

pendulum.create(2015, 1, 31, 0)
#<Pendulum 2015-01-31T00:00:00 00:00>

pendulum.create(2015, 3, 2, tz='America/Toronto')
#<Pendulum 2015-03-02T00:00:00-05:00>

Tomorrow and today control


date = pendulum.now()
#<Pendulum 2018-02-19T23:43:35.998675 03:00>

date.tomorrow()
#<Pendulum 2018-02-20T00:00:00 03:00>

date.yesterday()
#<Pendulum 2018-02-18T00:00:00 03:00>

date.tomorrow('Europe/London')
#<Pendulum 2018-02-20T00:00:00 00:00>

Time difference and text in date

date = pendulum.now()
#<Pendulum 2018-02-19T23:52:46.187968 03:00>

date.to_datetime_string()
#'2018-02-19 23:52:46'

date.add(hours=-1)
#<Pendulum 2018-02-19T22:52:46.187968 03:00>

date.add(days=1)
#<Pendulum 2018-02-20T23:52:46.187968 03:00>

I think it's a simple and useful library to use. I am currently using this library in my new project. I had a lot of problems with time. This package made me speed up. I want to write in this regard.

If you have a question that you are wondering, you can ask me.

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