Operations on datetime objects

The datetime and timedelta classes support various mathematical operations to get dates in the future or the past. Using these operations returns another datetime object. . In this recipe, you would create datetime, date, time, and timedelta objects and perform mathematical operations on them.

How to do it…

Follow along with these steps to execute this recipe:

1. Import the necessary modules from the Python standard library:

>>> from datetime import datetime, timedelta

2. Fetch today's date. Assign it to date_today and print it:

>>> date_today = date.today()              
>>> print(f"Today's Date: {date_today}")

We get the following output. Your output may differ:

Today's Date: 2020-08-12

3. Add 5 days to today's date using a timedelta object. Assign it to date_5days_later and print it:

>>> date_5days_later = date_today + timedelta(days=5)
>>> print(f"Date 5 days later: {date_5days_later...