Python: Use Delorean and Pandas to Calculate Your Next Flight Time

By Medium - 2021-03-16

Description

Flight tickets state the departure and arrival date and time but with their respective local Time Zones, which can make working out how long the flight is a bit tricky. In this article, the Delorean…

Summary

  • Use Delorean and Pandas to Calculate Your Next Flight Time Manipulate Time Zone Aware and Naivedatetime objects Scope Flight tickets state the departure and arrival date and time but with their respective local Time Zones, which can make working out how long the flight is a bit tricky.
  • This is a long winded way to say that the library Delorean is named after the car from the Back to the Future films and goofy TV cartoons in the 1990s.
  • Notebook Snippet | by the Author The notebook snippet shows the creation of the utc variable again, but also a separate london variable, which takes the initialised Delorean object and shifts it to the London Time Zone.
  • Notebook Snippet | by the Author The list of common Time Zones can be parsed with a list comprehension looking for the keyword “Kuala” and shows that the appropriate Time Zone is Asia/Kuala_Lumpur.

 

Topics

  1. Coding (0.11)
  2. Machine_Learning (0.08)
  3. Security (0.02)

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