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#Importing the required modules
from datetime import datetime
from datetime import timedelta

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#Printing the current date and timecurrent_time = datetime.now()
current_time

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#Calculating the difference between two dates (14/02/2018 and 01/01/2018 09:15AM)
delta = datetime(2018,2,14)-datetime(2018,1,1,9,15)
delta

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#Converting the output to days
delta.days

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#Converting the output to seconds
delta.seconds

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#Converting the output to seconds
delta.seconds

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#Shift a date using timedelta
my_date = datetime(2018,2,10)
#Shift the date by 10 days
my_date + timedelta(10)

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#Using multiples of timedelta function
my_date - 2*timedelta(10)

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#Converting datetime to string
my_date1 = datetime(2018,2,14)
str(my_date1)

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#Converting a string to datetime
datestr = '2018-02-14'
datetime.strptime(datestr, '%Y-%m-%d')