Arrow - Better date & time manipulation for Python

Version:	0.1.4
Author:	Chris Smith (chris@cir.ca)
Download:	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/arrow
Source:	https://github.com/crsmithdev/arrow
Keywords:	python, dates, datetime, timezone, timestamp, utc

• Overview
• Important - UTC
• Examples
  • Importing
  • Instantiation
  • Accessing properties
  • Converting between time zones
• Coming soon

Overview

Inspired by Requests and great date / time libraries in other languages (such as moment.js), Arrow aims to provide a fast, simple way to manipulate dates & times, timezones and timestamps in Python.

Important - UTC

Arrow is UTC by default. When optional, time zones are assumed to be UTC when none is supplied.

Examples

Importing

>>> from arrow import arrow

Instantiation

Current UTC date & time

>>> arrow()
Arrow(11/20/12 15:40:22.696837 +00:00 (UTC))

Current local date & time

>>> arrow('local')
Arrow(11/20/12 07:40:27.473312 -08:00 (PST))

Current date & time in named time zone

>>> arrow('US/Pacific')
Arrow(11/20/12 07:40:36.707704 -08:00 (PST))

Current date & time with offset-based time zone

>>> arrow(timedelta(hours=-1))
Arrow(11/20/12 14:40:54.544660 -01:00 (None))

Current UTC date & time from timestamp

>>> arrow(time.time())
Arrow(11/20/12 15:41:13.112031 +00:00 (UTC))

Another date & time in UTC

>>> d = datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(hours=-1)
>>> arrow(d)
Arrow(11/20/12 15:41:22.130000 +00:00 (UTC))

Another date & time in another time zone

>>> d = datetime.now() + timedelta(hours=-1)
>>> arrow(d, 'local')
Arrow(11/20/12 07:18:55.535649 -08:00 (PST))

Another date & time from timestamp

>>> arrow(time.time())
Arrow(11/20/12 15:46:49.204422 +00:00 (UTC))

Accessing properties

>>> a = arrow()
>>> a.datetime
datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 20, 0, 18, 42, 516322, tzinfo=tzutc())
>>> a.timestamp
1353370722
>>> a.tz.name
'UTC'
>>> a.tz.utcoffset
datetime.timedelta(0)
>>> a.tz.utc
True

>>> a = arrow('local')
>>> a.datetime
datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 20, 0, 19, 47, 172338, tzinfo=tzfile('/etc/localtime'))
>>> a.timestamp
1353399587
>>> a.tz.name
'PST'
>>> a.tz.utcoffset
datetime.timedelta(-1, 57600)
>>> a.tz.utc
False

Converting between time zones

>>> a1 = arrow()
>>> a2 = arrow('local')
>>> a3 = a1.to('local')
>>> a4 = a2.to('UTC')
>>> a1; a4
Arrow(11/20/12 15:47:27.388437 +00:00 (UTC))
Arrow(11/20/12 15:47:30.821018 +00:00 (UTC))
>>> a2; a3
Arrow(11/20/12 07:47:30.821018 -08:00 (PST))
Arrow(11/20/12 07:47:27.388437 -08:00 (PST))

>>> a1 = arrow('local')
>>> a2 = arrow()
>>> a3 = a1.utc()
>>> a2; a3
Arrow(11/20/12 15:48:32.458546 +00:00 (UTC))
Arrow(11/20/12 15:48:30.211002 +00:00 (UTC))

Coming soon

• Parsing date strings (e.g. arrow('11-19-2012', format='MM-dd-YYYY'))
• Additional time zone formats (e.g. arrow(datetime.now(), tz='+01:00'))
• Humanized relative time (e.g. arrow().since() -> '43 minutes ago')