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# How to Get Today's Date in Pandas
- URL: https://datascientyst.com/get-todays-date-pandas/
- Published: 2022-02-15T11:30:17.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-15T11:30:17.000Z
- Author: John D K
- Tags: Time Series

## 1\. Overview

In this quick guide, we're going to look at **today's date in Pandas**. How to get **today with or without time, how to subtract days or date from it**.

## 2\. Get today's date in Pandas

To **get today's date as datetime in Pandas** we can use the method `to_datetime()` and pass parameter - `today`.

Below we are creating new column with Timestamp of today:

```python
pd.to_datetime("today")
df['today'] = pd.to_datetime("today")

```

The result is Timestamp of today's date and new column with the same date:

```
Timestamp('2022-02-15 12:00:42.371569')

```

## 3\. Pandas get today's date without time

Depending on the final data type there are several options how to extract dates in Pandas:

- `string` \- `strftime()`
- `datetime` \- method `date()`

### 3.1 Get Today's Date in Pandas - `strftime()` and format %m/%d/%Y

If you like to **get today as a string** in custom date format then we can use method - `strftime()`:

```python
pd.to_datetime("today").strftime("%m/%d/%Y")

```

the result is a string with the current date:

```
'02/15/2022'

```

### 3.2 Get Today's Date in Pandas - method `date()`

Pandas offer method `date()` which returns datetime from a given date. For today we can chain the methods in order to get today's date:

```python
pd.to_datetime("today").date()

```

The result is:

```
datetime.date(2022, 2, 15)

```

## 4\. Today date minus days or date in Pandas

There are two main scenarious for dates and subtraction:

- date minus days with result in new date
- date minus another date - result in timedelta

### 4.1 Today date minus N days

To s**ubtract days from todays date in Pandas** we can use the following format - `n * obj.freq`. We need to provide two parameters:

- n - number of days. In this example is 10
- unit - the frequency of the object - D for days

```python
pd.to_datetime("today") - pd.Timedelta(10, unit='D')

```

The result is a date with difference 10 days from today:

```
Timestamp('2022-02-05 13:23:10.382430')

```

**Note:** 

The subtracting from integer or float is deprecated and will raise error:

> TypeError: Addition/subtraction of integers and integer-arrays with Timestamp is no longer supported. Instead of adding/subtracting `n`, use `n * obj.freq`

### 4.2 Today date minus another date

In pandas is possible to perform subtraction of two dates with minus operator:

```python
td = pd.to_datetime("today") - pd.to_datetime("02/10/2022")

```

The result will be timedelta:

```
Timedelta('5 days 12:47:35.699206')

```

Days can be extracted by using attribute - `days` from the result- `td.days` \- 5.

## 5\. Conclusion

In this article, we looked at different solutions for getting today's date in Pandas. We covered most popular questions related to the dates and today in Pandas: remove time, subtract days or date.