New submission from Paul Ganssle <p.gans...@gmail.com>:
One thing I think that is fairly common is the desire to get the current
datetime only up to a current precision, so you see a lot of things in, say,
`dateutil` like this:
dt = datetime.now().replace(hours=0, minutes=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0)
Or:
dt = datetime.now().replace(microseconds=0)
I think it would make sense to add a `precision` keyword argument, similar to
the `timespec` argument to isoformat
(https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.isoformat),
then you could just do:
dt = datetime.now(precision='day')
And get the current date as a datetime.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 309703
nosy: belopolsky, p-ganssle, tim.peters
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add precision argument to datetime.now
versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8
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