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

Posted by Jeremy Bradrick
Jeremy Bradrick
6,731 Points

Struggling with TimeDelta Minute Challenge

Works when I run it in pycharm

minutes.py 
import datetime

def minutes():
    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    future = now + datetime.timedelta(seconds=300)
    seconds_elapsed = future - now

    return round(seconds_elapsed.total_seconds()/60)

2 Answers

Ryan S
Ryan S
27,276 Points
Ryan S
Ryan S
27,276 Points

Hi Jeremy,

Yes it may work in Pycharm, but it doesn't do what the challenge asks. It might be worth giving the instructions another read.

The challenge asks you to write a function that will take two datetime arguments. These will be the objects that you perform the calculations on. Instead, you have defined your own arbitrary datetimes that were not asked for. It doesn't mention "now" or 300 seconds from now anywhere in the challenge.

Jeremy Bradrick
Jeremy Bradrick
6,731 Points
Jeremy Bradrick
Jeremy Bradrick
6,731 Points 
import datetime


def minutes(now, future):
    time_passed = future - now
    return round(time_passed.total_seconds()/60)

Thanks Ryan! The above worked. I keep thinking they are asking for arbitrary arguments that we supply.