# Find yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s date in Python

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When it is required to find yesterday, today and tomorrow’s date with respect to current date, the current time is determined, and a method is used (in built) that helps find previous day and next day’s dates.

Below is a demonstration of the same −

## Example

Live Demo

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

present = datetime.now()
yesterday = present - timedelta(1)
tomorrow = present + timedelta(1)

print("Yesterday was :")
print(yesterday.strftime('%d-%m-%Y'))
print("Today is :")
print(present.strftime('%d-%m-%Y'))
print("Tomorrow would be :")
print(tomorrow.strftime('%d-%m-%Y'))

## Output

Yesterday was :
05-04-2021
Today is :
06-04-2021
Tomorrow would be :
07-04-2021

## Explanation

• The required packages are imported into the environment.

• The current date is determined using the ‘now’ method present in ‘datetime’ package.

• It is assigned to a variable.

• The ‘timedelta’ method is used to find the previous or next days, by passing the number as parameter.

• When the next day has to be found, the function is added.

• When the previous day has to be found, the function is subtracted.

• The output is displayed on the console.

Published on 15-Apr-2021 16:34:03