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Exercise

Creating datetimes for dates

Imagine that as a financial analyst, you are trying to understand the history of market crashes. In order to represent crashes in your code, you want to represent the times that they occurred. Two significant market crashes are the Kennedy Slide, also known as the Flash Crash, which started May 28, 1962, and the Black Monday crash of October 19th, 1987.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Create a datetime for the current time.
  • Create a datetime to represent the time of the Flash Crash.
  • Create a datetime to represent the time of the Black Monday Crash.