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Python

Tomer Inbar
Tomer Inbar
2,248 Points
Posted by Tomer Inbar
Tomer Inbar
2,248 Points

Python TZ challenge

Challenge: Create a new timezone for US/Pacific, which is 8 hours behind UTC (UTC-08:00). Then make a new variable named hill_valley that is naive with its tzinfo attribute replaced with the US/Pacific timezone you made.

seems like, I didn't understand what I have been asked. my code is:

import datetime

pacific = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=-8))
hill_valley = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 4, 29,).replace(tzinfo = pacific)

What am I missing?

[MOD: added ```python markdown formatting -cf]

2 Answers

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

Your code passed for me. There are two ways to create hill_valley:

import datetime

naive = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 4, 29)
pacific = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=-8))
# apply 'replace' to the "naive" datetime
hill_valley = naive.replace(tzinfo = pacific)

Though, creating a new datetime object also passes the Task 1:

# apply 'replace' to a new "naive" datetime:
hill_valley = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 4, 29).replace(tzinfo = pacific)

I did notice a trailing comma after the "29" in your code, but this shouldn't break anything.

Was there some other question?

Tomer Inbar
Tomer Inbar
2,248 Points
Tomer Inbar
Tomer Inbar
2,248 Points

Thanks for the quick response! Have no idea why mine didn't pass.

Peter Rzepka
Peter Rzepka
4,118 Points
Peter Rzepka
Peter Rzepka
4,118 Points 
naive = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 4, 29)
#define Pacific variable
pacific = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=-8))
#set hill_valley variable tzinfo to your new pacific with same time as naive
hill_valley = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 4, 29, tzinfo=pacific)