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

Posted by MUZ140154 Tariro Mushonga
MUZ140154 Tariro Mushonga
2,329 Points

stage 3 where on earth do timezones make sense

Challenge Task 1 of 1 guyz im stuck plz help

Create a function named to_timezone that takes a timezone name as a string. Convert starter to that timezone using pytz's timezones and return the new datetime.

timezone.py 
import datetime

import pytz

starter = pytz.utc.localize(datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 23, 29))

2 Answers

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

The code you posted is exactly how the challenge starts. What have you tried?

Chris White
Chris White
6,212 Points

Where am I going wrong with this? Even when I take it maybe too literally and create the string as a 'US/Pacific' or something, it still won't let me pass.

import datetime

import pytz

starter = pytz.utc.localize(datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 23, 29))

def to_timezone(string):
  new_time = starter.pytz.timezone(string)
  return new_time
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

starter is a datetime object so it doesn't have a pytz method/attribute. You need to create a timezone based on the string (which you're doing, just not in the right way/spot) and then return starter as that timezone.

Tony McCabe
Tony McCabe
4,889 Points
Tony McCabe
Tony McCabe
4,889 Points

import datetime

import pytz

starter = pytz.utc.localize(datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 23, 29)) def to_timezone(tz): Zim = pytz.timezone(tz) new_time = starter.astimezone(Zim) return new_time Try this out if your still struggling