Python timedelta - How to add minutes or hours to the current time

We can get the future date or time to use Python timedelta method. Before using that, let's import datetime and timedelta from datetime.

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

now = datetime.now()
future = now + timedelta(minutes=6)

print(now)  # 2020-09-26 14:47:31.683936
print(future)  # 2020-09-26 14:53:31.683936

datetime.now returns now date (or time). If you want to add 6 minutes, add now timedelta(minutes=6).

now and future is datetime.datetime object and has year, month, day, hour, minute and second attributes.

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

now = datetime.now()
future = now + timedelta(minutes=6)

print(now)  # 2020-09-26 14:52:24.807849
print(future)  # 2020-09-26 14:58:24.807849

print(type(now))  # <class 'datetime.datetime'>
print(type(future))  # <class 'datetime.datetime'>

print(future.year)  # 2020
print(future.month)  # 9
print(future.day)  # 26
print(future.hour)  # 14
print(future.minute)  # 58
print(future.second)  # 24
print(future.microsecond)  # 807849
print(future.weekday())  # 5
print(future.isoweekday())  # 6