Tag: Date & Time

Time Guessing Game

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Reaction Time Tester Look at the code provided below. It uses the time library to store the current time (as a number of seconds) at different lines of the code. The code is executed very quickly, normally in just a…

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Fast Typing Test

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Reaction Time Tester Look at the code provided below. It uses the time library to store the current time (as a number of seconds) at different lines of the code. The code is executed very quickly, normally in just a…

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Days Until Summer

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Did you know?Summer starts on the Summer Solstice which, in the Northern hemisphere, is the 21st of June. It ends three months later, on September the 22nd, a date known as known as Autumnal equinox, when the Autumn season starts.…

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Which Season?

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Did you know?: Though we all agree that a calendar year is divided into four seasons, people sometimes disagree on the dates when these seasons start or finish. Many bodies, for example meteorologists, adopt a convention for the purpose of…

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JavaScript: Working with Dates…

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Working with Dates in computing can be quite tricky especially as we don’t always use the same date format around the globe. For instance in the UK dates are represented using the following format: dd/mm/yyyy. Let’s see how we could…

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