Python Date & Time Mastery — datetime, timedelta, Timezones & Scheduling | Ep 63
This Python script calculated exactly how many days until your next birthday, showed the current time in 5 different timezones, and scheduled an alert for 30 minutes from now — all with built-in Python.
In this episode you will learn:
✅ datetime.now(), date.today() and creating specific dates
✅ timedelta — adding and subtracting days, hours, minutes
✅ strftime (format output) vs strptime (parse input)
✅ Timezones — naive vs aware, zoneinfo, always store in UTC
✅ Build "ScheduleBot" — deadlines, countdowns & alerts
Dates break more production code than almost anything else. Master them here.
⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Cold Open: Birthday countdown + 5 timezones + 30-min alert
00:15 - datetime vs date vs time vs timedelta
01:00 - Creating dates and times
02:00 - timedelta — add & subtract time
03:00 - strftime & strptime explained
05:00 - 🔔 Subscribe Break
05:30 - Timezones & zoneinfo (the most important part)
06:40 - LIVE BUILD: ScheduleBot
08:10 - Common datetime mistakes
09:00 - Challenge + Summary
🔥 Challenge: Calculate days until YOUR next birthday and reply with the number!
📌 Next Episode: Logging & Debugging in Python
🛠 Code & Files: Link in pinned comment
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Mahaz Abbasi | CodeToAGI
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