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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times Timedelta Minute

Ashley Keeling
Ashley Keeling
11,476 Points
Posted by Ashley Keeling
Ashley Keeling
11,476 Points

I don't know why this isn't working

I have had lots of attempts and I don't know how to do this challenge

minutes.py 
import datetime

def minutes():
    time = datetime.datetime.now()
    awnser = time - timedelta.total_seconds()

    return awnser.replace(second=0)

1 Answer

Niko Klanecek
Niko Klanecek
3,152 Points

The instructions tell you that the minutes method should take 2 inputs, like:

def minutes(time1, time2):
    pass

Subtracting 2 datetimes will automatically give you a timedelta object so you can just do

def minutes(time1, time2):
    return datetime.timedelta.total_seconds(time1 - time2)

But you also need to return it as minutes and rounded so:

def minutes(time1, time2):
    return round(datetime.timedelta.total_seconds(time2 - time1) / 60)