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?

What Day is it Today?

Welcome on board! In this course, and especially within the next sections you will work with the datetime library that provides powerful functionality to work and deal with dates in Python. Since we are going to work with only dates, we will import only date class from the datetime library.

Let's begin with library loading. Remember, to load a library in Python we need to write import library_name, and to load only specific class use from library_name import class_name.


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# Load class from library
from datetime import date

Since we have loaded the library and the class, we can use its methods. For example, imagine we want to call method course from codefinity class. It can be done the next way:


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# Load class
from some_library import codefinity

# Call method of this class
codefinity.course()

Let's start with a simple task.

Task

Print today's date. Use today() method of date class.

Task

Print today's date. Use today() method of date class.

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Everything was clear?

Section 1. Chapter 1

What Day is it Today?

Let's begin with library loading. Remember, to load a library in Python we need to write import library_name, and to load only specific class use from library_name import class_name.


              12
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import date

Since we have loaded the library and the class, we can use its methods. For example, imagine we want to call method course from codefinity class. It can be done the next way:


              12345
            
# Load class
from some_library import codefinity

# Call method of this class
codefinity.course()

Let's start with a simple task.

Task

Print today's date. Use today() method of date class.

Task

Print today's date. Use today() method of date class.

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

Everything was clear?

Section 1. Chapter 1

What Day is it Today?

Let's begin with library loading. Remember, to load a library in Python we need to write import library_name, and to load only specific class use from library_name import class_name.


              12
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import date

Since we have loaded the library and the class, we can use its methods. For example, imagine we want to call method course from codefinity class. It can be done the next way:


              12345
            
# Load class
from some_library import codefinity

# Call method of this class
codefinity.course()

Let's start with a simple task.

Task

Print today's date. Use today() method of date class.

Task

Print today's date. Use today() method of date class.

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

Everything was clear?

Let's begin with library loading. Remember, to load a library in Python we need to write import library_name, and to load only specific class use from library_name import class_name.


              12
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import date

Since we have loaded the library and the class, we can use its methods. For example, imagine we want to call method course from codefinity class. It can be done the next way:


              12345
            
# Load class
from some_library import codefinity

# Call method of this class
codefinity.course()

Let's start with a simple task.

Task

Print today's date. Use today() method of date class.

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

Section 1. Chapter 1

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