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?

Date Attributes

Since date is an object, it should have some attributes. Let's consider them:

date.day - extracts day of the month (between 1 and number of days in the given month of the given year);
date.month - extracts month of the year;
date.year - extracts year of the given date;

For example, we can extract the day, month from the date object we created before.


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# Load class from library
from datetime import date

# Create date object with positional arguments
course_created = date(2021, 11, 1)

# Extract the day and the month from date
print("Month:", course_created.month)
print("Day:", course_created.day)

Task

Given the date 11th March 1998. You need to create a date object and then extract the day, month, and year from it.

Task

Given the date 11th March 1998. You need to create a date object and then extract the day, month, and year from it.

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Everything was clear?

Section 1. Chapter 3

Date Attributes

Since date is an object, it should have some attributes. Let's consider them:

date.day - extracts day of the month (between 1 and number of days in the given month of the given year);
date.month - extracts month of the year;
date.year - extracts year of the given date;

For example, we can extract the day, month from the date object we created before.


              123456789
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import date

# Create date object with positional arguments
course_created = date(2021, 11, 1)

# Extract the day and the month from date
print("Month:", course_created.month)
print("Day:", course_created.day)

Task

Given the date 11th March 1998. You need to create a date object and then extract the day, month, and year from it.

Task

Given the date 11th March 1998. You need to create a date object and then extract the day, month, and year from it.

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

Everything was clear?

Section 1. Chapter 3

Date Attributes

Since date is an object, it should have some attributes. Let's consider them:

date.day - extracts day of the month (between 1 and number of days in the given month of the given year);
date.month - extracts month of the year;
date.year - extracts year of the given date;

For example, we can extract the day, month from the date object we created before.


              123456789
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import date

# Create date object with positional arguments
course_created = date(2021, 11, 1)

# Extract the day and the month from date
print("Month:", course_created.month)
print("Day:", course_created.day)

Task

Given the date 11th March 1998. You need to create a date object and then extract the day, month, and year from it.

Task

Given the date 11th March 1998. You need to create a date object and then extract the day, month, and year from it.

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

Everything was clear?

Since date is an object, it should have some attributes. Let's consider them:

date.day - extracts day of the month (between 1 and number of days in the given month of the given year);
date.month - extracts month of the year;
date.year - extracts year of the given date;

For example, we can extract the day, month from the date object we created before.


              123456789
            
# Load class from library
from datetime import date

# Create date object with positional arguments
course_created = date(2021, 11, 1)

# Extract the day and the month from date
print("Month:", course_created.month)
print("Day:", course_created.day)

Task

Given the date 11th March 1998. You need to create a date object and then extract the day, month, and year from it.

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

Section 1. Chapter 3

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