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Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Days in month

Write a function that returns the number of days in a given month and year, correctly handling leap years.

datetime calendar leap-year
+8 pts 10m
Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Format date output

Parse ISO date strings and format them into a friendly US-style date output.

datetime string-formatting date-parsing
+8 pts 10m
Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Days Between Dates

Write a function that returns the number of days between two given dates.

datetime date-arithmetic calendar
+10 pts 15m
Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Add Days to Date

Given a date in YYYY-MM-DD format and an integer number of days, return the resulting date in the same format.

datetime date arithmetic
+8 pts 10m
Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Weekday from date

Write a function that returns the full English weekday name for a date string.

datetime date weekday
+10 pts 10m
Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Leap Years in Range

Write a function that returns a list of all leap years between two given years, inclusive.

leap-year range datetime
+7 pts 10m
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
+10 pts 15m
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
+10 pts 10m
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
+10 pts 15m
Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Datetime to Unix timestamp

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

datetime parsing timestamp
+8 pts 10m
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
+10 pts 15m
Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Next Weekday Finder

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

datetime date weekday
+10 pts 12m
Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Previous Weekday Finder

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

datetime date weekday
+10 pts 15m
Datetime & Time Calculations easy

Quarter from date

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

datetime date parsing
+10 pts 10m
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
+8 pts 12m
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
+10 pts 15m
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
+10 pts 15m
Datetime & Time Calculations medium

Julian Day Number Converter

Implement two functions to convert between Gregorian calendar dates and Julian Day Numbers using a standard formula.

datetime date-arithmetic algorithms
+20 pts 20m
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
+10 pts 15m
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
+10 pts 10m
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
+8 pts 10m
Datetime & Time Calculations medium

Easter Date Calculator

Implement a function that returns the date of Easter Sunday for a given year using the Gregorian computus algorithm.

datetime date easter
+20 pts 25m
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
+8 pts 12m

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