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Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Age in years months days

Given birth and reference dates, return age as a dictionary with years, months, days.

datetime date arithmetic age calculation

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Time Difference HH:MM

Given two times in HH:MM format, return the absolute difference as a string in HH:MM format.

datetime time string

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Unix timestamp to datetime

Write a function that returns a UTC datetime string from a Unix timestamp.

datetime unix-timestamp utc

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Datetime to Unix timestamp

Parse a datetime string and convert it to a Unix timestamp assuming UTC.

datetime parsing timestamp

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Business days between

Calculate the number of business days (Mon-Fri) between two dates, inclusive of both endpoints.

datetime weekdays date-arithmetic

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Next Weekday Finder

Write a function that returns the next weekday date after a given date.

datetime date weekday

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Previous Weekday Finder

Given a date, return the date of the immediately preceding weekday (Monday–Friday).

datetime date weekday

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Quarter from date

Compute the quarter (1-4) for a date string like '2023-07-15'.

datetime date parsing

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Week Number ISO

Given a date, return its ISO 8601 week number (1–53) without using datetime.isocalendar().

datetime iso date

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Duration Human Readable

Write a function that turns a number of seconds into a human-readable duration like '2 hours, 1 minute'.

datetime strings formatting

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Schedule conflict check

Write a function that takes a list of time intervals and returns True if any two overlap.

datetime intervals overlap

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Month End Date

Implement a function that returns the last day of the month for a given year and month.

datetime calendar leap-year

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Month Start Date

Parse a date string and return the first day of its month in the same format.

datetime date-parsing formatting

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Daylight saving check

Given a date in the US, determine if daylight saving time starts or ends on that day.

datetime timezones dst

Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Time Slot Generator

Generate a list of time slots of a specified duration within a start and end time.

datetime time scheduling

Data Formats & Parsing easy

Protocol definition

Parse a simple wire protocol string into a structured dictionary.

parsing protocol strings

Data Formats & Parsing easy

Config Parser Reader

Parse a simple INI-style configuration text into a nested dictionary.

parsing strings config

Data Formats & Parsing easy

Generate CSV row

Implement a function that converts a list of values into a single CSV row with correct quoting and escaping.

csv escaping strings

Data Formats & Parsing easy

Parse YAML-like dict

Parse a simple YAML-like text with indentation into a nested dictionary.

parsing yaml dictionary

Data Formats & Parsing easy

Parse email header

Write a function that parses a raw email header string and returns sender, recipient, and subject.

parsing strings email

Data Formats & Parsing easy

Encode Base64 String

Write a function that encodes a UTF-8 string into a base64 string without using the base64 module.

base64 encoding strings

Data Formats & Parsing easy

Update Row by ID

Given a list of CSV rows and target ID, replace the first matching row's value.

csv parsing list

Data Formats & Parsing easy

Parse CSV Row

Implement a robust function that parses a single CSV line into a list of fields, handling double quotes and escaped quotes.

csv parsing strings

Data Formats & Parsing easy

Parse Apache log line

Write a function that parses a single Apache access log line into a dictionary with IP, timestamp, request, status, and size.

parsing strings regex

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