Course Content

Dealing with Dates and Times in Python

1. Working with Dates

What Day is it Today?Creating a Date Object Date Attributes Date Methods Date Formats One More Formatting Date Difference Arithmetic Operations with timedelta Objects

2. Working with Times

What Time is it Now?Creating a datetime Object Datetime Attributes Datetime Methods Datetime Formats 12-Hour and 24-Hour Formats Date and Time Difference Reading Date and Time from String

3. Timezones and Daylight Savings Time (DST)

The Variery of Timezones Timezone Examples Applying Timezone to Datetime Object What Time is it in ... ?Daylight Savings Time

4. Working with Dates and Times in pandas

Challenge: What Will We Work With?Challenge: Converting Columns into datetime Type Challenge: Extreme Trips Durations Challenge: Investigation Challenge: Negative Trip Duration Challenge: Is this Common Issue?Challenge: Fixing the Issues Challenge: Average Metrics Across Taxi Types Challenge: Corrected Metrics Across Taxi Types Challenge: Group by Period?

Creating a datetime Object

Obviously we need to learn how to work with timestamps that differ from current. Let's begin with creating datetime objects.

As you remember from the previous chapter, datetime object has 9 arguments. Let's show the necessary ones in the example below.


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# Load class from library
from datetime import datetime

# Create new datetime object
datetime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, ...)

The first 3 arguments are required. Like for date object you are free to use either keyword, either positional arguments. For example, let's create datetime object with the following value: "November 17, 2017, 12:34:56".


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# Load class from library
from datetime import datetime

# Create datetime object using keyword arguments
d = datetime(month = 11, year = 2017, day = 17, hour = 12, minute = 34, second = 56)
# Create datetime object using positional arguments
t = datetime(2017, 11, 17, 12, 34, 56)

# Check their values
print("Are", d, "and", t, "equal:", d == t)

Task

Assign the date and the time "29 February, 2020, 19:48:23" to the variable t. Feel free to use either positional or keyword arguments.

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Section 2. Chapter 2

Creating a datetime Object

Obviously we need to learn how to work with timestamps that differ from current. Let's begin with creating datetime objects.

As you remember from the previous chapter, datetime object has 9 arguments. Let's show the necessary ones in the example below.


              12345
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import datetime

# Create new datetime object
datetime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, ...)


              12345678910
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import datetime

# Create datetime object using keyword arguments
d = datetime(month = 11, year = 2017, day = 17, hour = 12, minute = 34, second = 56)
# Create datetime object using positional arguments
t = datetime(2017, 11, 17, 12, 34, 56)

# Check their values
print("Are", d, "and", t, "equal:", d == t)

Task

Assign the date and the time "29 February, 2020, 19:48:23" to the variable t. Feel free to use either positional or keyword arguments.

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Everything was clear?

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Section 2. Chapter 2

Creating a datetime Object

Obviously we need to learn how to work with timestamps that differ from current. Let's begin with creating datetime objects.

As you remember from the previous chapter, datetime object has 9 arguments. Let's show the necessary ones in the example below.


              12345
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import datetime

# Create new datetime object
datetime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, ...)


              12345678910
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import datetime

# Create datetime object using keyword arguments
d = datetime(month = 11, year = 2017, day = 17, hour = 12, minute = 34, second = 56)
# Create datetime object using positional arguments
t = datetime(2017, 11, 17, 12, 34, 56)

# Check their values
print("Are", d, "and", t, "equal:", d == t)

Task

Assign the date and the time "29 February, 2020, 19:48:23" to the variable t. Feel free to use either positional or keyword arguments.

Switch to desktop for real-world practiceContinue from where you are using one of the options below

Everything was clear?

Thanks for your feedback!

Obviously we need to learn how to work with timestamps that differ from current. Let's begin with creating datetime objects.

As you remember from the previous chapter, datetime object has 9 arguments. Let's show the necessary ones in the example below.


              12345
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import datetime

# Create new datetime object
datetime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, ...)


              12345678910
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import datetime

# Create datetime object using keyword arguments
d = datetime(month = 11, year = 2017, day = 17, hour = 12, minute = 34, second = 56)
# Create datetime object using positional arguments
t = datetime(2017, 11, 17, 12, 34, 56)

# Check their values
print("Are", d, "and", t, "equal:", d == t)

Task

Assign the date and the time "29 February, 2020, 19:48:23" to the variable t. Feel free to use either positional or keyword arguments.

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Section 2. Chapter 2

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