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Python Basics: Date and Time Mastery
Other Datetime Methods
Congratulations on completing the tutorial on datetime
in Python! You've worked hard to learn a valuable skill, and you should be proud of yourself. These are some functions that may be useful to you in the future:
- To convert a datetime object to a different time zone using the
astimezone
method in Python, you will need to import thedatetime
andpytz
modules. Thepytz
module provides access to the time zones defined in the IANA time zone database, a comprehensive database of time zones used worldwide; - The
timestamp()
function is a method of the datetime class in Python'sdatetime
module. It returns the timestamp for the datetime object it is called on in the format of a float representing the number of seconds since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970).
Task
- Import the
datetime
library and thepytz
library; - Create two
dt
objects in the Eastern Time zone and the Pacific Time zone (already done); - Use the
timestamp()
method ofdt_pt
to get the number of seconds since the Unix epoch.
Task
- Import the
datetime
library and thepytz
library; - Create two
dt
objects in the Eastern Time zone and the Pacific Time zone (already done); - Use the
timestamp()
method ofdt_pt
to get the number of seconds since the Unix epoch.
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Congratulations on completing the tutorial on datetime
in Python! You've worked hard to learn a valuable skill, and you should be proud of yourself. These are some functions that may be useful to you in the future:
- To convert a datetime object to a different time zone using the
astimezone
method in Python, you will need to import thedatetime
andpytz
modules. Thepytz
module provides access to the time zones defined in the IANA time zone database, a comprehensive database of time zones used worldwide; - The
timestamp()
function is a method of the datetime class in Python'sdatetime
module. It returns the timestamp for the datetime object it is called on in the format of a float representing the number of seconds since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970).
Task
- Import the
datetime
library and thepytz
library; - Create two
dt
objects in the Eastern Time zone and the Pacific Time zone (already done); - Use the
timestamp()
method ofdt_pt
to get the number of seconds since the Unix epoch.
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Section 1. Chapter 7