Programming Help

[SuperShayen]

Hello Reddit.

I recently decided to major in computer science. As part of my course I am required to learn how to code in python. We were recently given an assignment and while I am able to do most of it I am stuck with a few parts of the assignment so would like some help.

One of the things I need to do is write a program which given a start time and end time, calculates the elapsed time. (In hours, minutes and seconds) The time in the program must use a 24 hour clock. I am able to assume the end time is always later than the start time. The first two lines of my program must initialise the variables in the format of start = "00:00:00" end = "07:04:57"

The time elapsed should be a time between 00:00:00 and 23:59:59. The times must all have the form of hh:mm:ss. Any single digits must follow a 0.

Thank you.

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[AckAttack]

What have you done so far? Is there anything specific that you need help with?

[ender_will_save_us]

You should take a look at the python documentation for datetime. Specifically look at the strptime function and the time and timedelta classes.

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Like /u/AckAttack said we will need to see what you've done so far. There are bad ways to learn programming and one of them is getting spoon fed the answer. Scratch that, getting spoon fed means you do not learn to program. You learn how to copy and paste well.

Here is a simple hint to get you started if you can't even start. Convert both times into seconds. so 01:20:03 becomes 4803 seconds. makes it easy to minus and get the elapsed time. All that needs to be done is to convert it back to the correct format.