Date and Time
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.. module:: babel.dates

The date and time functionality provided by Babel lets you format standard
Python `datetime`, `date` and `time` objects and and work with timezones.

Date and Time Formatting
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.. autofunction:: format_datetime

.. autofunction:: format_date

.. autofunction:: format_time

.. autofunction:: format_timedelta

Timezone Functionality
----------------------

.. autofunction:: get_timezone

.. autofunction:: get_timezone_gmt

.. autofunction:: get_timezone_location

.. autofunction:: get_timezone_name

.. autofunction:: get_next_timezone_transition

.. data:: UTC

    A timezone object for UTC.

.. data:: LOCALTZ

    A timezone object for the computer's local timezone.

Data Access
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.. autofunction:: get_period_names

.. autofunction:: get_day_names

.. autofunction:: get_month_names

.. autofunction:: get_quarter_names

.. autofunction:: get_era_names

.. autofunction:: get_date_format

.. autofunction:: get_datetime_format

.. autofunction:: get_time_format

Basic Parsing
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.. autofunction:: parse_date

.. autofunction:: parse_time

.. autofunction:: parse_pattern