AttributeError: type object 'datetime.date' has no attribute 'now'

Question

Using these lines of code:

from datetime import date

date_start = date.now()

I'm getting this error:

AttributeError: type object 'datetime.date' has no attribute 'now'

How can I solve this?

Aldarund · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-15 14:36:36Z

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You need to use

 import datetime

 now = datetime.datetime.now()

Or if you are using django 1.4+ and have timezone enabled you should use

 django.utils.timezone.now()

answered Mar 15, 2013 at 14:36

Aldarund

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django.utils.timezone.now() still give me 2013-03-15 00:00:00 just the date

Where should I put ' django.utils.timezone.now()' ? @Prometheus

Gino Mempin · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-23 11:36:59Z

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This works:

import datetime

datetime.date.today()

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answered Jan 23, 2022 at 6:24

Bhuwan Joshi

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That doesn't give the current time, only the date.