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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Where on Earth do Timezones Make Sense? Timezone Strings

spencer tintorri
spencer tintorri
6,184 Points
Posted by spencer tintorri
spencer tintorri
6,184 Points

Question on the code challenge

Am I misunderstanding what the challenge is asking for?

This runs fine for me, and returns the start date in EST.

Thank you.

timezone.py 
import datetime
import pytz

starter = pytz.utc.localize(datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 23, 29))
eastern = pytz.timezone('US/Eastern')

def to_timezone(zone):
    new1 = starter.astimezone(zone)
    return new1

to_timezone(eastern)

1 Answer

Jeff Muday
MOD
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

You're pretty close to an answer on this! Good job! The parameter to to_timezone() is a string of the timezone rather than an actual timezone.

The way the Challenge grader is grading is sending in timezone strings like 'US/Eastern', 'US/Central', etc.

===== SPOILER ALERT BELOW====

def to_timezone(zstr):
  # make a specific timezone object based on the string
  zone = pytz.timezone(zstr)
  # return the converted time
  return starter.astimezone(zone)