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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Let's Build a Timed Quiz App Simple Time Machine

Jessica Just
Jessica Just
1,652 Points
Posted by Jessica Just
Jessica Just
1,652 Points

I'm not understanding these questions very well, please help!

When I check the work it just says that 'delorean' didn't return the right datetime. No datetime was specified, it just says "many" hours ahead of starter. If it's looking for a specific datetime then how many, exactly... is many? What am I missing?

time_machine.py 
import datetime

starter = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 21, 16, 29)

def delorean(int):
    return starter + datetime.timedelta(hours=20000)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

The challenge talks about "that many" hours, referring to the integer argument. So make use of the argument instead of coding in a fixed number of hours.