This module truncates a datetime object to the level of precision that you specify, making everything higher than that zero (or one for day and month).
It is based on PostgreSQL's DATE_TRUNC.
Documentation available on Read the Docs.
You can install from pypi!
pip install datetime_truncate
>>> from datetime_truncate import truncate
>>> truncate(datetime(2012, 2, 4, 12, 24, 50, 234), 'second')
datetime(2012, 2, 4, 12, 24, 50)
>>> truncate(datetime(2012, 2, 4, 12, 24, 50), 'minute')
datetime(2012, 2, 4, 12, 24)
>>> truncate(datetime(2012, 2, 4, 12, 24), 'hour')
datetime(2012, 2, 4, 12)
>>> truncate(datetime(2012, 2, 4, 12, 24), 'day')
datetime(2012, 2, 4)
>>> truncate(datetime(2012, 2, 4, 12, 24), 'week')
datetime(2012, 1, 30)
>>> truncate(datetime(2012, 2, 4, 12, 24), 'month')
datetime(2012, 2, 1)
>>> truncate(datetime(2012, 2, 4, 12, 24), 'quarter')
datetime(2012, 1, 1)
>>> truncate(datetime(2012, 8, 18, 12, 25), 'half_year')
datetime(2012, 7, 1)
>>> truncate(datetime(2012, 8, 18, 12, 25), 'year')
datetime(2012, 1, 1)
There are also sugar functions available on the form:
- truncate_second
- truncate_minute
- truncate_hour
- truncate_day
- truncate_week
- truncate_month
- truncate_quarter
- truncate_half_year
- truncate_year