Setting timezones

Now that you have the hang of setting timezones one at a time, let's look at setting them for the first ten trips that W20529 took.

timezone and timedelta have already been imported. Make the change using .replace()

This exercise is part of the course

Working with Dates and Times in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Create edt, a timezone object whose UTC offset is -4 hours.
  • Within the for loop:
  • Set the tzinfo for trip['start'].
  • Set the tzinfo for trip['end'].

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Create a timezone object corresponding to UTC-4
edt = ____

# Loop over trips, updating the start and end datetimes to be in UTC-4
for trip in onebike_datetimes[:10]:
  # Update trip['start'] and trip['end']
  trip['start'] = trip['start'].____
  trip['end'] = trip['end'].____