This section has some short exercises to illustrate the features of time series elements:

1. Import the inbuilt datetime Python package, as shown:

from datetime import datetime

2. To get the current date/time which is the timestamp, do the following:

timestamp_now = datetime.now()
datetime(2018, 3, 14, 0, 10, 2, 17534)

By executing the preceding code you'll get the following output:

datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 14, 0, 10, 2, 17534)

3. You can get the difference between two timestamps by just doing the following:

time_difference = datetime(2018,3,14) - datetime(2015,2,13,0,59)
datetime.timedelta(1124, 82860)

4. You can extract the day from the preceding code by:

time_difference.days = 1124

5. You can extract the seconds by:

time_difference.seconds = 82860

6. Date times can also be added to each other.