Abstract Base Class: Temporal

Framework-level abstract base class defining read-write access to a temporal object, such as a date, time, offset or some combination of these. This is the base class type for date, time and offset objects that are complete enough to be manipulated using plus and minus. It is implemented by those classes that can provide and manipulate information as fields or queries.

Most date and time information can be represented as a number. These are modeled using TemporalField with the number held using an integer to handle large values. Year, month and day-of-month are simple examples of fields, but they also include instant and offsets.

Two pieces of date/time information cannot be represented by numbers, the chronology and the time-zone.

This abstract base class is a framework-level interface that should not be widely used in application code. Instead, applications should create and pass around instances of concrete types, such as LocalDate. There are many reasons for this, part of which is that implementations of this interface may be in calendar systems other than ISO.

Example:

DateTime.now()  # returns a new DateTime object which implements Temporal

Methods

toString()

toString() -> str

Returns a string representation of the Temporal instance.

Returns

str - A string representing the Temporal instance.

Example

temporal = DateTime.now()
print(str(temporal))  # Outputs something like: "2024-09-03T12:34:56.789Z"

toISOString()

toISOString() -> str

Returns an ISO 8601 string representation of the Temporal instance.

Returns

str - An ISO 8601 formatted string representing the Temporal instance.

Example

temporal = DateTime.now()
print(temporal.toISOString())  # Outputs something like: "2024-09-03T12:34:56.789Z"