Working with datetime python module.

This module is very good and I worked with this issue by using MySQL and python.
The version of python I used is 2.7 under Fedora distro.
You can take a look at the official page.
I use the pip and not the DNF fedora Linux tool.

[root@localhost lucru]# pip install datetime
Collecting datetime
Downloading DateTime-4.1.1.zip (66kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 71kB 703kB/s 
Collecting zope.interface (from datetime)
Downloading zope.interface-4.3.3.tar.gz (150kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 153kB 2.2MB/s 
Collecting pytz (from datetime)
Downloading pytz-2016.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl (483kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 491kB 2.4MB/s 
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from zope.interface->datetime)
Installing collected packages: zope.interface, pytz, datetime
Running setup.py install for zope.interface ... done
Running setup.py install for datetime ... done
Successfully installed datetime-4.1.1 pytz-2016.10 zope.interface-4.3.3

I solve this problem:

• conversion using the lambda function
  

  parser.add_argument('date', type=lambda s: datetime.datetime.strptime(s, '%Y-%m-%d'))

• solve last day
  

  datetime.datetime.strptime(new_value, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')-timedelta(days=1)

• print the today date
  

  print date.today()

• show date using an explicit format string
  

  today=date.today()
  today.strftime("%A %d. %B %Y")
  'Sunday 05. March 2017'
  

• using epoch issue [1]
  

  from datetime import datetime
  now_epoch = (datetime.utcnow() - datetime(1970, 1, 1)).total_seconds()
  datetime.utcfromtimestamp(now_epoch)
  datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 4, 22, 35, 13, 463409)
  datetime.fromtimestamp(now_epoch)
  datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 5, 0, 35, 13, 463409)
  import pytz
  datetime.fromtimestamp(now_epoch, pytz.utc)
  datetime.datetime(2017, 3, 4, 22, 35, 13, 463409, tzinfo=)
  

[1] The Unix epoch is the time 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. There is a problem with this definition, in that UTC did not exist in its current form until 1972;