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

Posted by adityaarakeri
adityaarakeri
10,653 Points

Dates and Times challenge task

Got the wrong number of minutes. Expected 1507, got 5424300.0. Please help me solve this task

minutes.py 
import datetime

def minutes(d1, d2):
    r = d1 - d2
    result = r.total_seconds() * 60
    return result

d1 = datetime.datetime.now()
d2 = datetime.datetime.now()

minutes(d1,d2)

2 Answers

Mike Wagner
Mike Wagner
23,559 Points

To get minutes from seconds you need to divide since there are 60 seconds in a minute. You'll probably need some version of a round() or to cast to an int explicitly, also, to remove any partial minute value otherwise, you'll probably get something like 1506.7 or 1507.3 which would still fail, based on the response it gave

adityaarakeri
adityaarakeri
10,653 Points
adityaarakeri
adityaarakeri
10,653 Points

@Mike Wagner: Thank you for the answer. I was able to clear the challenge by the below code.

import datetime
import math
def minutes(d1, d2):
    r = d1 - d2
    result = math.ceil( r.total_seconds() / 60 )
    return result

d1 = datetime.datetime.now()
d2 = datetime.datetime.now()

minutes(d1,d2)