Python Datetime - Exercises, Practice, Solution
This resource offers a total of 315 Python datetime problems for practice. It includes 63 main exercises, each accompanied by solutions, detailed explanations, and four related problems.
The datetime module supplies classes for manipulating dates and times in both simple and complex ways.
You may read our Python date and time tutorial before solving the following exercises.
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1. DateTime Formats Display
Write a Python script to display the various Date Time formats -
a) Current date and time
b) Current year
c) Month of year
d) Week number of the year
e) Weekday of the week
f) Day of year
g) Day of the month
h) Day of week
2. Leap Year Checker
Write a Python program to determine whether a given year is a leap year.
3. String to Datetime Converter
Write a Python program to convert a string to datetime.
Sample String : Jul 1 2014 2:43PM
Expected Output : 2014-07-01 14:43:00
4. Current Time Fetcher
Write a Python program to get the current time in Python.
Sample Format : 13:19:49.078205
5. Subtract Five Days
Write a Python program to subtract five days from the current date.
Sample Date :
Current Date : 2015-06-22
5 days before Current Date : 2015-06-17
6. Unix Timestamp Converter
Write a Python program to convert a Unix timestamp string to a readable date.
Sample Unix timestamp string : 1284105682
Expected Output : 2010-09-10 13:31:22
7. Relative Dates Printer
Write a Python program to print yesterday, today, tomorrow.
8. Date to Midnight Datetime
Write a Python program to convert the date to datetime (midnight of the date) in Python.
Sample Output : 2015-06-22 00:00:00
9. Next 5 Days Printer
Write a Python program to print the next 5 days starting today.
10. Add 5 Seconds
Write a Python program to add 5 seconds to the current time.
Sample Data :
13:28:32.953088
13:28:37.953088
11. Day of Year Converter
Write a Python program to convert Year/Month/Day to Day of Year in Python.
12. Time in Milliseconds
Write a Python program to get the current time in milliseconds in Python.
13. Week Number Finder
Write a Python program to get the week number.
Sample Date : 2015, 6, 16
Expected Output : 25
14. First Monday Finder
Write a Python program to find the date of the first Monday of a given week.
Sample Year and week : 2015, 50
Expected Output : Mon Dec 14 00:00:00 2015
15. Sundays Selector
Write a Python program to select all the Sundays in a specified year.
16. Add Years to Date
Write a Python program to add year(s) to a given date and display the updated date.
Sample Data : (addYears is the user defined function name)
print(addYears(datetime.date(2015,1,1), -1))
print(addYears(datetime.date(2015,1,1), 0))
print(addYears(datetime.date(2015,1,1), 2))
print(addYears(datetime.date(2000,2,29),1))
Expected Output :
2014-01-01
2015-01-01
2017-01-01
2001-03-01
17. Drop Microseconds
Write a Python program to drop microseconds from datetime.
18. Days Between Dates
Write a Python program to get days between two dates.
Sample Dates : 2000,2,28, 2001,2,28
Expected Output : 366 days, 0:00:00
19. Last Tuesday Finder
Write a Python program to get the date of the last Tuesday.
20. Third Tuesday Tester
Write a Python program to test the third Tuesday of a month.
21. Last Day Finder
Write a Python program to get the last day of a specified year and month.
22. Days in Month
Write a Python program to get the number of days in a given month and year.
23. Add Month to Date
Write a Python program to add a month to a specified date.
24. Count First Mondays
Write a Python program to count the number of Mondays on the 1st day of the month from 2015 to 2016.
25. Delayed String Printer
Write a Python program to print a string five times, with a delay of three seconds..
26. Six Months Later
Write a Python program that calculates the date six months from the current date using the datetime module.
27. Fixed Dates Generator
Write a Python program to create 12 fixed dates from a specified date over a given period. The difference between two dates is 20.
28. 30 Days Before/After
Write a Python program to get the dates 30 days before and after today.
29. GMT and Local Time
Write a Python program to get GMT and the local time.
30. Date to Timestamp
Write a Python program to convert a date to a timestamp.
31. String Date to Timestamp
Write a Python program to convert a string date to a timestamp.
32. Days Between Two Dates
Write a Python program to calculate the number of days between two dates.
33. Days Between DateTimes
Write a Python program to calculate the number of days between two date times.
34. Human Friendly DateTime
Write a Python program to display the date and time in a human-friendly string.
35. Date to Unix Timestamp
Write a Python program to convert a date to a Unix timestamp.
36. Difference in Seconds
Write a Python program to calculate the difference between two dates in seconds.
37. Date Difference Breakdown
Write a Python program to convert difference of two dates into days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
38. File Last Modified Info
Write a Python program to get the last modified information of a file.
39. Age Calculator
Write a Python program to calculate an age in years.
40. Current DateTime Info
Write a Python program to get the current date and time information.
41. DateTime String Generator
Write a Python program to generate a date and time as a string.
42. Formatted Month Calendar
Write a Python program to display formatted text output of a month and start the week on Sunday.
43. 3-Column Year Calendar
Write a Python program to print a 3-column calendar for an entire year.
44. Locale Calendar Display
Write a Python program to display a calendar for a locale.
45. Current Week Finder
Write a Python program to get the current week.
46. Calendar Creator
Write a Python program to create a HTML calendar with data for a specific year and month.
47. 2nd Saturday Dates
Write a Python program display a list of the dates for the 2nd Saturday of every month for a given year.
48. Simple Formatted Calendar
Write a Python program to display a simple, formatted calendar of a given year and month.
49. String to Datetime Conversion
Write a Python program to convert a string into datetime
50. Dates Between Two Dates
Write a Python program to get a list of dates between two dates.
51. RFC 3339 Timestamp Generator
Write a Python program to generate RFC 3339 timestamp.
52. First and Last Second
Write a Python program to get the first and last second.
53. Gregorian Date Validator
Write a Python program to validate a Gregorian date. The month is between 1 and 12 inclusive, the day is within the allowed number of days for the given month. Leap year's are taken into consideration. The year is between 1 and 32767 inclusive.
54. Set Default Timezone
Write a Python program to set the default timezone used by all date/time functions.
55. Epoch Info and Conversion
The epoch is the point where time starts, and is platform dependent. For Unix, the epoch is January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 (UTC). Write a Python program to find out what the epoch is on a given platform. Convert a given time in seconds since the epoch.
Sample Output:
Epoch on a given platform:
time.struct_time(tm_year=1970, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=0)
Time in seconds since the epoch:
time.struct_time(tm_year=1970, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=10, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=0)
56. Time Components Fetcher
Write a Python program to get time values with components using local time and gmtime.
Sample Output:
localtime:
tm_year : 2021
tm_mon : 4
tm_mday : 13
tm_hour : 11
tm_min : 20
tm_sec : 37
tm_wday : 1
tm_yday : 103
tm_isdst: 0
gmtime:
tm_year : 2021
tm_mon : 4
tm_mday : 13
tm_hour : 11
tm_min : 20
tm_sec : 37
tm_wday : 1
tm_yday : 103
tm_isdst: 0
57. Timezone Components Fetcher
Write a Python program to get different time values with components timezone, timezone abbreviations, the offset of the local (non-DST) timezone, DST timezone and time of different timezones.
Sample Output:
Default Zone:
TZ : (not set)
Timezone abbreviations: ('UTC', 'UTC')
Timezone : 0 (0.0)
DST timezone 0
Time : 11:30:05 04/13/21 UTC
Pacific/Auckland :
TZ : Pacific/Auckland
Timezone abbreviations: ('NZST', 'NZDT')
Timezone : -43200 (-12.0)
DST timezone 1
Time : 23:30:05 04/13/21 NZST
Europe/Berlin :
TZ : Europe/Berlin
Timezone abbreviations: ('CET', 'CEST')
Timezone : -3600 (-1.0)
DST timezone 1
Time : 13:30:05 04/13/21 CEST
America/Detroit :
TZ : America/Detroit
Timezone abbreviations: ('EST', 'EDT')
Timezone : 18000 (5.0)
DST timezone 1
Time : 07:30:05 04/13/21 EDT
Singapore :
TZ : Singapore
Timezone abbreviations: ('+08', '+08')
Timezone : -28800 (-8.0)
DST timezone 0
Time : 19:30:05 04/13/21 +08
58. Script Suspension
Write a Python program that can suspend execution of a given script for a given number of seconds.
Sample Output:
Sorry, Slept for 3 seconds...
Sorry, Slept for 3 seconds...
Sorry, Slept for 3 seconds...
Sorry, Slept for 3 seconds...
59. Epoch Seconds to Local Time
Write a Python program to convert a given time in seconds since the epoch to a string representing local time.
Sample Output:
Tue Apr 13 11:51:51 2021
Thu Jun 30 18:36:29 1977
60. Simple Time Format Printer
Write a Python program that prints the time, names, representation format, and the preferred date time format in a simple format.
Sample Output:
Simple format of time:
Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:02:01 + 1010
Full names and the representation:
Tuesday, 04/13/21 April 2021 12:02:01 + 0000
Preferred date time format:
Tue Apr 13 12:02:01 2021
Example 11: 04/13/21, 12:02:01, 21, 2021
61. Local Time from Seconds
Write a Python program that takes a given number of seconds and passes since the epoch as an argument. Print structure time in local time.
Sample Output:
Result: time.struct_time(tm_year=1983, tm_mon=2, tm_mday=19, tm_hour=21, tm_min=38, tm_sec=18, tm_wday=5, tm_yday=50, tm_isdst=0)
Year: 1983
62. Time Tuple to String
Write a Python program that takes a tuple containing 9 elements corresponding to structure time as an argument and returns a string representing it.
Sample Output:
Result: Sun Jan 22 02:34:06 2020
Result: Tue Nov 12 02:54:08 1982
63. Parse Time String
Write a Python program to parse a string representing time and return the time structure.
Sample Output:
String representing time: 22 January, 2020
time.struct_time(tm_year=2020, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=22, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=2, tm_yday=22, tm_isdst=-1)
String representing time: 30 Nov 00
time.struct_time(tm_year=2000, tm_mon=11, tm_mday=30, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=335, tm_isdst=-1)
String representing time: 04/11/15 11:55:23
time.struct_time(tm_year=2015, tm_mon=4, tm_mday=11, tm_hour=11, tm_min=55, tm_sec=23, tm_wday=5, tm_yday=101, tm_isdst=-1)
String representing time: 12-11-2019
time.struct_time(tm_year=2019, tm_mon=12, tm_mday=11, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=2, tm_yday=345, tm_isdst=-1)
String representing time: 13::55::26
time.struct_time(tm_year=1900, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=13, tm_min=55, tm_sec=26, tm_wday=0, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=-1)
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