Find the last Saturday of the month Using the Datetime Module

Date and time are not separate data types in Python, but they may be used together by importing the DateTime package. There is no requirement to install the Python Datetime Module outside because it is already included in Python. The DateTime module does not need to be installed as it already comes pre-installed with python.

Classes for working with date and time are provided by the Python Datetime module. Numerous capabilities to deal with dates, times, and time intervals are provided by these classes. Python treats date and DateTime as objects, so when you work with them, you’re really working with objects rather than strings or timestamps.

Six major classes make up the DateTime module:

1. Date is an idealized naïve date that is based on the premise that the Gregorian calendar has always been and always will be used. The year, month, and day are its properties.
2. Time is an idealistic period of time, independent of any specific day, where each day has exactly 24 hours and 60 minutes. Hour, minute, second, microsecond, and tzinfo are some of its properties.
3. A combination of date and time, DateTime also includes the following properties: year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, and tzinfo.
4. Timedelta: A duration that, down to the microsecond, expresses the difference between two dates, times, or DateTime occurrences.
5. The time zone information object provider is tzinfo.
6. Using a fixed offset from UTC, timezone is a class that implements the tzinfo abstract base class (New in version 3.2).

Constructor Syntax:  

class datetime.date(year, month, day)

The arguments must be in the following range –  

• MINYEAR <= year <= MAXYEAR
• 1 <= month <= 12
• 1 <= day <= number of days in the given month and year

Note: If the argument is not an integer it will raise a TypeError and if it is outside the range a ValueError will be raised. 

Now we follow the steps to solve this problem:

• Import date and timedelta from datetime.
• Find the last date of the month and store it in last_day.
• Find offset by (today.weekday() – 5)%7 coz, 0 for Monday so, 5 for Saturday.
• Find and print last Saturday from now by last_day – timedelta(days = offset).

Syntax: 

last_day - timedelta(days = offset)

where, 

• last_day = last_day_of_month(year, month)
• offset = (last_day.weekday() – 5)%7

Below is the implementation of the above approach:

Output:
2022-12-31

This article will teach you to find the last Saturday of the month in Python. This covers various methods using which we can find the last Saturday of any/current month of any/current year.

Example:

Input: Year = 2022, Month = 11
Output: 26

Input: Year = 2022, Month = 12
Output: 31