Method Name:
toordinal
Method Signature:
toordinal()
Method Overview:
- Returns the proleptic Gregorian ordinal of a datetime instance.
- Proleptic Gregorian ordinal provides the number of days elapsed from the date 01/Jan/0001.
- The ordinal is called proleptic since the Gregorian calendar itself is followed from October 1582.
Example:
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import datetime
veryFirstDay = datetime.datetime(1,1,1,0,0,0,0) prolepticOrdinal = veryFirstDay.toordinal()
print("Proleptic Ordinal for very 1st day: {}".format(prolepticOrdinal))
daVinciBirthDay = datetime.datetime(1452,4,15,0,0,0,0)
prolepticOrdinal = daVinciBirthDay.toordinal()
print("Proleptic Ordinal for Da Vinci's birth day: {}".format(prolepticOrdinal)) |
Output:
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Proleptic Ordinal for very 1st day: 1 Proleptic Ordinal for Da Vinci's birth day: 530072 |