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Python Dates and Times in Python Let's Build a Timed Quiz App Simple Time Machine

Posted by jp28
jp28
3,413 Points

Why is this not working?

I didn't understand what treehouse what telling me to do but i thought this could work, but it didn't

time_machine.py 
import datetime

starter = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 16, 29)

def delorean(intege):
    return datetime.datetime.combine(starter + intege)

2 Answers

markmneimneh
markmneimneh
14,132 Points
markmneimneh
markmneimneh
14,132 Points

The combine method typically looks like this

def time_tango (some_date, some_time): return datetime.datetime.combine(some_date,some_time)

my_date= datetime.datetime.date(datetime.datetime.now()) my_time = datetime.datetime.time(datetime.datetime.now()) print(time_tango(my_date,my_time))

check it out ... and if this answers your question, please mark the question as answered.

Iain Simmons
MOD
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,289 Points
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,289 Points

You shouldn't be using combine, but instead be adding a timedelta based on the integer to the starter.

i.e.

return starter + datetime.timedelta( ... )

Keep in mind that the timedelta takes a number of days, not hours, so you'll need to adjust integer by a particular amount when passing it to the timedelta method.