PyQt5 QDateTimeEdit – Signal when only Date changes

In this article we will see how we can get signal when only date of the QDateTimeEdit widget changes. QDateTime is basically a combination of QDate and QTime i.e it has both date and time. And QDateTimeEdit widget is used to show or receive the QDateTime. We can set QDateTime to it with the help of setDateTime method. Setting date will not affect the time of the QDateTimeEdit, it can be set with the help of setDate method.

In order to do this we will use dateChanged method with the QDateTimeEdit object.

Syntax : datetimeedit.dateChanged.connect(method)

Argument : It takes method as argument

Return : It returns None

Below is the implementation

# importing libraries
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui
from PyQt5.QtGui import *
from PyQt5.QtCore import *
import sys


class Window(QMainWindow):

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

        # setting title
        self.setWindowTitle("Python ")

        # setting geometry
        self.setGeometry(100, 100, 500, 400)

        # calling method
        self.UiComponents()

        # showing all the widgets
        self.show()

    # method for components
    def UiComponents(self):

        # creating a QDateTimeEdit widget
        datetimeedit = QDateTimeEdit(self)

        # setting geometry
        datetimeedit.setGeometry(100, 100, 150, 35)

        # setting date time to it
        datetimeedit.setDateTime(QDateTime(2020, 10, 10, 11, 30))

        # date
        date = QDate(2020, 1, 1)

        # setting only date
        datetimeedit.setDate(date)

        # creating a label
        label = QLabel("GeeksforGeeks", self)

        # setting geometry to the label
        label.setGeometry(100, 160, 200, 60)

        # making label multi line
        label.setWordWrap(True)

        # getting current date
        value = datetimeedit.date()

        # setting text to the label
        label.setText("Date : " + str(value))

        # getting date change signal
        datetimeedit.dateChanged.connect(lambda: label.setText(
                                   "Date Change signal Emitted"))






# create pyqt5 app
App = QApplication(sys.argv)

# create the instance of our Window
window = Window()

# start the app
sys.exit(App.exec())

Output :