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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times Far Away

sidni ahmed
sidni ahmed
3,329 Points
Posted by sidni ahmed
sidni ahmed
3,329 Points

far_away function

how would i use this function? what do i put in as the argument?

far_away.py 
import datetime

def far_away(timedelt):

  return timedelt + datetime.datetime.now()

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Sidni,

I ran the following in the python shell a few minutes ago to show you an example of how you would use it.

>>> datetime.datetime.now()
datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 9, 20, 14, 1, 960597)
>>> far_away(datetime.timedelta(hours=5))
datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 10, 1, 14, 7, 424598)

First I got the current datetime. From that you can see that it's Jan. 9th, 2016 at approximately 8:14pm. The hour is in 24 hour format.

Next I called the far_away function. It takes a timedelta object. So I created a timedelta object that is exactly 5 hours long. It could be whatever you needed though. The function then returns the datetime that is 5 hours into the future.

We can see that would be Jan. 10, 2016 at approximately 1:14am.

You don't need anything more than what you have for the challenge though.

sidni ahmed
sidni ahmed
3,329 Points
sidni ahmed
sidni ahmed
3,329 Points

Thank you. Very good explanation