Working with ISO 8601 dates in Python Part II

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If you happen to have stumbled upon this post I apologize, I’m not going to be doing a lot of explaining here. Rather, I really just wanted to post this little snippet of code for my own reference so I don’t lose it! But hey, maybe you’ll find it useful too…

	from datetime import date, datetime

	now = datetime.now()

	print(now)

	now_iso_8601 = now.isoformat()

	print(now_iso_8601)

	import time as time_

	current_time = time_.time()

	print(current_time)

	# date.isoformat() vs date.fromisoformat

	date_from_iso_format = date.fromisoformat('1987-02-06')

	print(date_from_iso_format)

	date_isoformat = date.isoformat(now)

	print(date_isoformat)

	# REFERENCE: https://topherpedersen.blog/2019/07/12/how-to-get-the-current-year-month-and-day-as-integers-in-python-3-using-the-datetime-module/

	# REFERENCE: https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_datetime.asp

	year = now.year
	month = now.month
	day = now.day

	print("One month ago...")
	one_month_ago = date(year, month - 1, day)
	print(one_month_ago)

	print("One year ago...")
	one_year_ago = date(year - 1, month, day)
	print(one_year_ago)

	print("Two years ago...")
	two_years_ago = date(year - 2, month, day)
	print(two_years_ago)

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