[Python-ideas] date.datetime() method to convert from date to datetime

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Jun 3 08:03:29 CEST 2011


Evan Martin
<python-dev at realityexists.net> writes:

> There is a datetime.date() method for converting from a datetime to a
> date, but no stdlib method to do the opposite conversion. Could a
> date.datetime() method be added that returns a datetime with the time
> component set to zero?

What is “zero” for a time-of-day? Do you mean “midnight on that day”? In
what timezone?

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