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March 29, throughout a decade

Daylight Saving rules are complicated: they're different in different places, they change over time, and they usually start on a Sunday (and so they move around the calendar).

For example, in the United Kingdom, as of the time this lesson was written, Daylight Saving begins on the last Sunday in March. Let's look at the UTC offset for March 29, at midnight, for the years 2000 to 2010.

This exercise is part of the course

Working with Dates and Times in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Using tz, set the timezone for dt to be 'Europe/London'.
  • Within the for loop:
  • Use the .replace() method to change the year for dt to be y.
  • Call .isoformat() on the result to observe the results.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import datetime and tz
from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import tz

# Create starting date
dt = datetime(2000, 3, 29, tzinfo = ____)

# Loop over the dates, replacing the year, and print the ISO timestamp
for y in range(2000, 2011):
  print(dt.____(year=____).____())
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