Getting the closest date to a given date

Question

Given this base date:

base_date = \"10/29 06:58 AM\"

I want to find a tuple within the list that contains the closest date to the bas

Answer 1

import datetime

fmt = '%m/%d %H:%M %p'
d = datetime.datetime.strptime(base_date, fmt)
def foo(x):
   return (datetime.datetime.strptime(x[0],fmt)-d).total_seconds() > 0
sorted(list_date, key=foo)[-1]