Question

I have a UTCDateTime object in python and I need to check if it is after today but within the next year. What is the best way to achieve this?

Thanks in advance

Changed from 13 months to 1 year.

Answer 1

now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
    if now.month < 12:
        expire_date = now.replace(year=now.year + 1, month=now.month + 1)
    else:
        expire_date = now.replace(year=now.year + 2, month=0)

although… this will still fail if you run it on, say, January 31st since February 31st doesn’t exist. There are a few conditions you can add related to month dependencies to avoid these problems.

If you changed it to 12 months (re: comment), you only have to worry about leap years.

now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
exp_year = now.year + 1
exp_month = now.month
exp_day = now.day

if exp_month == 2 and exp_day == 29:
    exp_month += 1
    exp_day = 1

exp_date = now.replace(year=exp_year, month=exp_month, day=exp_day)