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Instructions

In this exercise you'll be working on an appointment scheduler for a beauty salon in New York that opened on September 15th in 2012.

You have six tasks, which will all involve appointment dates.

1. Parse all-number appointment date

Implement the schedule_numeric() function to parse a textual representation of an appointment date into the corresponding datetime.datetime format.

Note that the input is in U.S.-style month/day/year order and numbers are zero-padded (so July is 07, not 7).

schedule_numeric("07/25/2023 13:45:00")
// => datetime.datetime(2023, 7, 25, 13, 45, 0)

2. Parse mixed-format appointment date

Implement the schedule_mixed() function to parse a textual representation of an appointment date into the corresponding datetime.datetime format:

schedule_mixed("Thursday, July 25, 2023 13:45:00")
// => datetime.datetime(2023, 7, 25, 13, 45, 0)

3. Check if an appointment has already passed

Implement the has_passed() function that takes an appointment date and checks if the appointment was somewhere in the past:

has_passed(datetime.datetime(1999, 12, 31, 9, 0, 0))
// => True

4. Check if appointment is in the afternoon

Implement the is_afternoon_appointment() function that takes an appointment date and checks if the appointment is in the afternoon (>= 12:00 and < 18:00):

is_afternoon_appointment(datetime.datetime(2023, 3, 29, 15, 0, 0))
// => True

5. Describe the time and date of the appointment

Implement the description() function that takes an appointment date and returns a description of that date and time:

description(datetime.datetime(2023, 3, 29, 15, 0, 0))
// => "You have an appointment on 03/29/2023 03:00:00 PM."

6. Return the anniversary date

Implement the anniversary_date() function that returns this year's anniversary date, which is September 15th:

anniversary_date()
// => datetime.date(2023, 9, 15)