### 13.13.4.4 Default adapters and converters

There are default adapters for the date and datetime types in the datetime module. They will be sent as ISO dates/ISO timestamps to SQLite.

The default converters are registered under the name "date" for `datetime.date` and under the name "timestamp" for `datetime.datetime`.

This way, you can use date/timestamps from Python without any additional fiddling in most cases. The format of the adapters is also compatible with the experimental SQLite date/time functions.

The following example demonstrates this.

    import sqlite3
    import datetime

    con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:", detect_types=sqlite3.PARSE_DECLTYPES|sqlite3.PARSE_COLNAMES)
    cur = con.cursor()
    cur.execute("create table test(d date, ts timestamp)")

    today = datetime.date.today()
    now = datetime.datetime.now()

    cur.execute("insert into test(d, ts) values (?, ?)", (today, now))
    cur.execute("select d, ts from test")
    row = cur.fetchone()
    print today, "=>", row[0], type(row[0])
    print now, "=>", row[1], type(row[1])

    cur.execute('select current_date as "d [date]", current_timestamp as "ts [timestamp]"')
    row = cur.fetchone()
    print "current_date", row[0], type(row[0])
    print "current_timestamp", row[1], type(row[1])