Date, time, and more

Another very useful element that we can manage out of the box in Streamlit is date and time – that is, dates, hours, and so on.

For example, to print today’s date on the screen, we just have to write the following:

import datetime
today = st.date_input("Today is",datetime.datetime.now())

Here, the first line simply imports the datetime package while the second, using Streamlit’s date_input, asks the user to select a date. This date will be saved in the today variable:

Figure 3.34: The st.date_input widget

Continuing with date and time, we can do the same with time, as follows:

import time
hour = st.time_input("The time is",datetime.time(12,30))

This time, we are importing time and using time_input, where we specify that the time is 12:30. On the screen, we can select any time we want:

Figure 3.35: The st.time_input widget

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