QDate

The QDate class provides date functions. More…

Synopsis

Functions

• def __eq__ (other)

• def __ge__ (other)

• def __gt__ (other)

• def __le__ (other)

• def __lt__ (other)

• def __ne__ (other)

• def __reduce__ ()

• def __repr__ ()

• def addDays (days)

• def addMonths (months)

• def addYears (years)

• def day ()

• def dayOfWeek ()

• def dayOfYear ()

• def daysInMonth ()

• def daysInYear ()

• def daysTo (arg__1)

• def getDate (year, month, day)

• def isNull ()

• def isValid ()

• def month ()

• def setDate (year, month, day)

• def toJulianDay ()

• def toPython ()

• def toString ([f=Qt.TextDate])

• def toString (format)

• def weekNumber ()

• def year ()

Static functions

• def currentDate ()

• def fromJulianDay (jd_)

• def fromString (s, format)

• def fromString (s[, f=Qt.TextDate])

• def isLeapYear (year)

• def isValid (y, m, d)

• def longDayName (weekday[, type=DateFormat])

• def longMonthName (month[, type=DateFormat])

• def shortDayName (weekday[, type=DateFormat])

• def shortMonthName (month[, type=DateFormat])

Detailed Description

A QDate object encodes a calendar date, i.e. year, month, and day numbers, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar by default. It can read the current date from the system clock. It provides functions for comparing dates, and for manipulating dates. For example, it is possible to add and subtract days, months, and years to dates.

A QDate object is typically created by giving the year, month, and day numbers explicitly. Note that QDate interprets two digit years as presented, i.e., as years 0 through 99, without adding any offset. A QDate can also be constructed with the static function currentDate() , which creates a QDate object containing the system clock’s date. An explicit date can also be set using setDate() . The fromString() function returns a QDate given a string and a date format which is used to interpret the date within the string.

The year() , month() , and day() functions provide access to the year, month, and day numbers. Also, dayOfWeek() and dayOfYear() functions are provided. The same information is provided in textual format by the toString() , shortDayName() , longDayName() , shortMonthName() , and longMonthName() functions.

QDate provides a full set of operators to compare two QDate objects where smaller means earlier, and larger means later.

You can increment (or decrement) a date by a given number of days using addDays() . Similarly you can use addMonths() and addYears() . The daysTo() function returns the number of days between two dates.

The daysInMonth() and daysInYear() functions return how many days there are in this date’s month and year, respectively. The isLeapYear() function indicates whether a date is in a leap year.

Remarks

No Year 0

There is no year 0. Dates in that year are considered invalid. The year -1 is the year “1 before Christ” or “1 before current era.” The day before 1 January 1 CE, QDate (1, 1, 1), is 31 December 1 BCE, QDate (-1, 12, 31).

Range of Valid Dates

Dates are stored internally as a Julian Day number, an integer count of every day in a contiguous range, with 24 November 4714 BCE in the Gregorian calendar being Julian Day 0 (1 January 4713 BCE in the Julian calendar). As well as being an efficient and accurate way of storing an absolute date, it is suitable for converting a Date into other calendar systems such as Hebrew, Islamic or Chinese. The Julian Day number can be obtained using toJulianDay() and can be set using fromJulianDay() .

The range of dates able to be stored by QDate as a Julian Day number is for technical reasons limited to between -784350574879 and 784354017364, which means from before 2 billion BCE to after 2 billion CE.

See also

QTime QDateTime QDateEdit QDateTimeEdit QCalendarWidget

class QDate

QDate(QDate)

QDate(y, m, d)

param y

int

param m

int

param QDate

QDate

param d

int

Constructs a null date. Null dates are invalid.

See also

isNull() isValid()

Constructs a date with year y , month m and day d .

If the specified date is invalid, the date is not set and isValid() returns false .

Warning

Years 1 to 99 are interpreted as is. Year 0 is invalid.

See also

isValid()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.MonthNameType

This enum describes the types of the string representation used for the month name.

Constant	Description
QDate.DateFormat	This type of name can be used for date-to-string formatting.
QDate.StandaloneFormat	This type is used when you need to enumerate months or weekdays. Usually standalone names are represented in singular forms with capitalized first letter.

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.__reduce__()

Return type

PyObject

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.__repr__()

Return type

PyObject

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.addDays(days)

Parameters

days – qint64

Return type

QDate

Returns a QDate object containing a date ndays later than the date of this object (or earlier if ndays is negative).

Returns a null date if the current date is invalid or the new date is out of range.

See also

addMonths() addYears() daysTo()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.addMonths(months)

Parameters

months – int

Return type

QDate

Returns a QDate object containing a date nmonths later than the date of this object (or earlier if nmonths is negative).

Note

If the ending day/month combination does not exist in the resulting month/year, this function will return a date that is the latest valid date.

See also

addDays() addYears()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.addYears(years)

Parameters

years – int

Return type

QDate

Returns a QDate object containing a date nyears later than the date of this object (or earlier if nyears is negative).

Note

If the ending day/month combination does not exist in the resulting year (i.e., if the date was Feb 29 and the final year is not a leap year), this function will return a date that is the latest valid date (that is, Feb 28).

See also

addDays() addMonths()

static PySide2.QtCore.QDate.currentDate()

Return type

QDate

Returns the current date, as reported by the system clock.

See also

currentTime() currentDateTime()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.day()

Return type

int

Returns the day of the month (1 to 31) of this date.

Returns 0 if the date is invalid.

See also

year() month() dayOfWeek()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.dayOfWeek()

Return type

int

Returns the weekday (1 = Monday to 7 = Sunday) for this date.

Returns 0 if the date is invalid.

See also

day() dayOfYear() DayOfWeek

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.dayOfYear()

Return type

int

Returns the day of the year (1 to 365 or 366 on leap years) for this date.

Returns 0 if the date is invalid.

See also

day() dayOfWeek()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.daysInMonth()

Return type

int

Returns the number of days in the month (28 to 31) for this date.

Returns 0 if the date is invalid.

See also

day() daysInYear()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.daysInYear()

Return type

int

Returns the number of days in the year (365 or 366) for this date.

Returns 0 if the date is invalid.

See also

day() daysInMonth()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.daysTo(arg__1)

Parameters

arg__1 – QDate

Return type

qint64

Returns the number of days from this date to d (which is negative if d is earlier than this date).

Returns 0 if either date is invalid.

Example:

d1 = QDate(1995, 5, 17)  # May 17, 1995
d2 = QDate(1995, 5, 20)  # May 20, 1995
d1.daysTo(d2)          # returns 3
d2.daysTo(d1)          # returns -3

See also

addDays()

static PySide2.QtCore.QDate.fromJulianDay(jd_)

Parameters

jd – qint64

Return type

QDate

Converts the Julian day jd to a QDate .

See also

toJulianDay()

static PySide2.QtCore.QDate.fromString(s[, f=Qt.TextDate])

Parameters

• s – unicode

• f – DateFormat

Return type

QDate

static PySide2.QtCore.QDate.fromString(s, format)

Parameters

• s – unicode

• format – unicode

Return type

QDate

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.getDate(year, month, day)

Parameters

• year – int

• month – int

• day – int

Extracts the date’s year, month, and day, and assigns them to *``year`` , *``month`` , and *``day`` . The pointers may be null.

Returns 0 if the date is invalid.

Note

In Qt versions prior to 5.7, this function is marked as non-const .

See also

year() month() day() isValid()

static PySide2.QtCore.QDate.isLeapYear(year)

Parameters

year – int

Return type

bool

Returns true if the specified year is a leap year; otherwise returns false .

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.isNull()

Return type

bool

Returns true if the date is null; otherwise returns false . A null date is invalid.

Note

The behavior of this function is equivalent to isValid() .

See also

isValid()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.isValid()

Return type

bool

Returns true if this date is valid; otherwise returns false .

See also

isNull()

static PySide2.QtCore.QDate.isValid(y, m, d)

Parameters

• y – int

• m – int

• d – int

Return type

bool

This is an overloaded function.

Returns true if the specified date (year , month , and day ) is valid; otherwise returns false .

Example:

QDate.isValid(2002, 5, 17)  # True
QDate.isValid(2002, 2, 30)  # False (Feb 30 does not exist)
QDate.isValid(2004, 2, 29)  # True (2004 is a leap year)
QDate.isValid(2000, 2, 29)  # True (2000 is a leap year)
QDate.isValid(2006, 2, 29)  # False (2006 is not a leap year)
QDate.isValid(2100, 2, 29)  # False (2100 is not a leap year)
QDate.isValid(1202, 6, 6)   # True (even though 1202 is pre-Gregorian)

See also

isNull() setDate()

static PySide2.QtCore.QDate.longDayName(weekday[, type=DateFormat])

Parameters

• weekday – int

• type – MonthNameType

Return type

unicode

Returns the long name of the weekday for the representation specified by type .

The days are enumerated using the following convention:

• 1 = “Monday”

• 2 = “Tuesday”

• 3 = “Wednesday”

• 4 = “Thursday”

• 5 = “Friday”

• 6 = “Saturday”

• 7 = “Sunday”

The day names will be localized according to the system’s locale settings, i.e. using system() .

Returns an empty string if the date is invalid.

See also

toString() shortDayName() shortMonthName() longMonthName()

static PySide2.QtCore.QDate.longMonthName(month[, type=DateFormat])

Parameters

• month – int

• type – MonthNameType

Return type

unicode

Returns the long name of the month for the representation specified by type .

The months are enumerated using the following convention:

• 1 = “January”

• 2 = “February”

• 3 = “March”

• 4 = “April”

• 5 = “May”

• 6 = “June”

• 7 = “July”

• 8 = “August”

• 9 = “September”

• 10 = “October”

• 11 = “November”

• 12 = “December”

The month names will be localized according to the system’s locale settings, i.e. using system() .

Returns an empty string if the date is invalid.

See also

toString() shortMonthName() shortDayName() longDayName()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.month()

Return type

int

Returns the number corresponding to the month of this date, using the following convention:

• 1 = “January”

• 2 = “February”

• 3 = “March”

• 4 = “April”

• 5 = “May”

• 6 = “June”

• 7 = “July”

• 8 = “August”

• 9 = “September”

• 10 = “October”

• 11 = “November”

• 12 = “December”

Returns 0 if the date is invalid.

See also

year() day()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.__ne__(other)

Parameters

other – QDate

Return type

bool

Returns true if this date is different from d ; otherwise returns false .

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.__lt__(other)

Parameters

other – QDate

Return type

bool

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.__le__(other)

Parameters

other – QDate

Return type

bool

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.__eq__(other)

Parameters

other – QDate

Return type

bool

Returns true if this date is equal to d ; otherwise returns false.

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.__gt__(other)

Parameters

other – QDate

Return type

bool

Returns true if this date is later than d ; otherwise returns false.

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.__ge__(other)

Parameters

other – QDate

Return type

bool

Returns true if this date is later than or equal to d ; otherwise returns false .

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.setDate(year, month, day)

Parameters

• year – int

• month – int

• day – int

Return type

bool

Sets the date’s year , month , and day . Returns true if the date is valid; otherwise returns false .

If the specified date is invalid, the QDate object is set to be invalid.

See also

isValid()

static PySide2.QtCore.QDate.shortDayName(weekday[, type=DateFormat])

Parameters

• weekday – int

• type – MonthNameType

Return type

unicode

Returns the short name of the weekday for the representation specified by type .

The days are enumerated using the following convention:

• 1 = “Mon”

• 2 = “Tue”

• 3 = “Wed”

• 4 = “Thu”

• 5 = “Fri”

• 6 = “Sat”

• 7 = “Sun”

The day names will be localized according to the system’s locale settings, i.e. using system() .

Returns an empty string if the date is invalid.

See also

toString() shortMonthName() longMonthName() longDayName()

static PySide2.QtCore.QDate.shortMonthName(month[, type=DateFormat])

Parameters

• month – int

• type – MonthNameType

Return type

unicode

Returns the short name of the month for the representation specified by type .

The months are enumerated using the following convention:

• 1 = “Jan”

• 2 = “Feb”

• 3 = “Mar”

• 4 = “Apr”

• 5 = “May”

• 6 = “Jun”

• 7 = “Jul”

• 8 = “Aug”

• 9 = “Sep”

• 10 = “Oct”

• 11 = “Nov”

• 12 = “Dec”

The month names will be localized according to the system’s locale settings, i.e. using system() .

Returns an empty string if the date is invalid.

See also

toString() longMonthName() shortDayName() longDayName()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.toJulianDay()

Return type

qint64

Converts the date to a Julian day.

See also

fromJulianDay()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.toPython()

Return type

PyObject

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.toString([f=Qt.TextDate])

Parameters

f – DateFormat

Return type

unicode

This is an overloaded function.

Returns the date as a string. The format parameter determines the format of the string.

If the format is TextDate , the string is formatted in the default way. shortDayName() and shortMonthName() are used to generate the string, so the day and month names will be localized names using the system locale, i.e. system() . An example of this formatting is “Sat May 20 1995”.

If the format is ISODate , the string format corresponds to the ISO 8601 extended specification for representations of dates and times, taking the form yyyy-MM-dd, where yyyy is the year, MM is the month of the year (between 01 and 12), and dd is the day of the month between 01 and 31.

If the format is SystemLocaleShortDate or SystemLocaleLongDate , the string format depends on the locale settings of the system. Identical to calling system() . toString (date, ShortFormat ) or system() . toString (date, LongFormat ).

If the format is DefaultLocaleShortDate or DefaultLocaleLongDate , the string format depends on the default application locale. This is the locale set with setDefault() , or the system locale if no default locale has been set. Identical to calling ShortFormat) or LongFormat) .

If the format is RFC2822Date , the string is formatted in an RFC 2822 compatible way. An example of this formatting is “20 May 1995”.

If the date is invalid, an empty string will be returned.

Warning

The ISODate format is only valid for years in the range 0 to 9999. This restriction may apply to locale-aware formats as well, depending on the locale settings.

See also

fromString() shortDayName() shortMonthName() toString()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.toString(format)

Parameters

format – unicode

Return type

unicode

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.weekNumber()

Return type

(week, yearNumber)

Returns the week number (1 to 53), and stores the year in *``yearNumber`` unless yearNumber is null (the default).

Returns 0 if the date is invalid.

In accordance with ISO 8601, weeks start on Monday and the first Thursday of a year is always in week 1 of that year. Most years have 52 weeks, but some have 53.

*``yearNumber`` is not always the same as year() . For example, 1 January 2000 has week number 52 in the year 1999, and 31 December 2002 has week number 1 in the year 2003.

See also

isValid()

PySide2.QtCore.QDate.year()

Return type

int

Returns the year of this date. Negative numbers indicate years before 1 CE, such that year -44 is 44 BCE.

Returns 0 if the date is invalid.

See also

month() day()