Instruction
Amazing work! We get a timedelta when we subtract one datetime object from another, but we can also create a timedelta ourselves and add it to or subtract it from a datetime to get another datetime object. Examine the code snippet below:
fra_mad_1_Dec = datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 1, 9, 45, 0) delta_1_day = datetime.timedelta(days=1) fra_mad_2_Dec = fra_mad_1_Dec + delta_1_day print(fra_mad_2_Dec)
Result: 2018-12-02 09:45:00
When we create a timedelta, we don't need to provide all the elements (e.g., hours or microseconds). It's enough to provide only the parts we need. In this case, we wanted to have a timedelta of one day, so we simply wrote datetime.timedelta(days=1). When we add this timedelta to our December 1st datetime, we get a new datetime of December 2nd.
Exercise
As you can see in the template code, the "Goals for 2019" meeting started at 3:45 PM on October 9th, 2018. The meeting lasted for 45 minutes. Your task is to calculate when the meeting ended and print the following sentence:
"Goals for 2019" started at {start datetime} and finished at {finish datetime}
Name the timedelta object meeting_duration.
Stuck? Here's a hint!
Create a timedelta using:
meeting_duration = datetime.timedelta(minutes=45)
Then add the delta to goals_for_2019 to get the finish time.
