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datetime.date.today()

date

Return today's date as a date object (no time part); a classmethod called on the date class itself.

Syntax

from datetime import date
date.today()

The value comes from the machine's local clock, not UTC, so near midnight a server in another timezone reports yesterday or tomorrow; use datetime.now(timezone.utc).date() when you need the UTC day. A date never compares equal to a datetime — equality is always False and ordering raises TypeError — so convert the other object with .date() first.

Examples

from datetime import date
today = date.today()
print(today)  # → ? сегодняшняя дата, например 2026-10-07
print(today.year, today.month, today.day)  # → ? например 2026 10 7

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