How do I get the current date and current time only respectively in Django?

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I came across an interesting situation when using this class:

class Company(models.Model):
    date = models.DateField()
    time = models.TimeField()

c = Company(date=datetime.datetime.now(), time=datetime.datetime.now())

Django decides to use DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS defined within the formats.py file. Which makes sense, because I am passing in a datetime.now() to both fields.

I think I could make Django to use DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS respectively, if I passed in only the current date and current time in.

Something like this:

c = Company(date=datetime.date.now(), time=datetime.time.now())

But this obviously throws an exception as now doesn't exist like that. Is there a different way to achieve this?

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6 Answers
import datetime

datetime.date.today()  # Returns 2018-01-15

datetime.datetime.now() # Returns 2018-01-15 09:00
user_88033020 
 import datetime

Current Date and time 

     print(datetime.datetime.now())
     #2019-09-08 09:12:12.473393

Current date only

     print(datetime.date.today())
     #2019-09-08

Current year only

     print(datetime.date.today().year)
     #2019

Current month only 

     print(datetime.date.today().month)
     #9

Current day only 

     print(datetime.date.today().day)
     #8
user_73008650

Another way to get datetime UTC with milliseconds.

from datetime import datetime

datetime.utcnow().isoformat(sep='T', timespec='milliseconds') + 'Z'

2020-10-29T14:46:37.655Z
user_41739130

A related info, to the question...

In django, use timezone.now() for the datetime field, as django supports timezone, it just returns datetime based on the USE TZ settings, or simply timezone 'aware' datetime objects

For a reference, I've got TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Kolkata' and USE_TZ = True,

from django.utils import timezone
import datetime

print(timezone.now())  # The UTC time
print(timezone.localtime())  # timezone specified time, 
print(datetime.datetime.now())  # default local time

# output
2020-12-11 09:13:32.430605+00:00
2020-12-11 14:43:32.430605+05:30  # IST is UTC+5:30
2020-12-11 14:43:32.510659

refer timezone settings and Internationalization and localization in django docs for more details.

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