arcpy script tool - format parameter Date data type

NatashaJurko

I have written a script and have an arcpy tool in a custom toolbox to fill in the parameters. 

Two of my parameters are dates. 

The Date data-type format for the parameters has a default setting of date and time format to the script.

I'd like to only pass the date onto my script.  I included some screenshots of my parameters and the date data-type in the tool.

This old geonet question asks the same sort of thing for a python toolbox (.pyt) but doesn't provide an answer.

Has anyone found a way to access the properties of the date data type?  I haven't been able to find any help in the documentation.

I'm working in ArcGIS 10.4.

This is my last-ditch effort before I strip it apart myself in the validation.

Thanks,

Natasha

Andreas

After all, to use strptime with different locales, I now use win32api to find the id for the current user locale and set locale to it. The format string "%x %X" than accepts my parameter.  Later in my script I'm able to get the date/time components using _start_dt.year, _start_dt.month, _start_dt.day and so on.

 

import arcpy
from datetime import datetime
import locale
import win32api

# parameter value (of type date)
start_time = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)

# internal ID for user locale for windows
_lcid = win32api.GetUserDefaultLCID()
_loc = locale.windows_locale[_lcid]
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, _loc)
_format = '%x %X'
# now create datetime using strptime with locale formatting
_start_dt = datetime.strptime(start_time, _format)

 

Maybe someone finds that useful. Thank you!