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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def start_time(self):
 """The start time of this experiment."""

        t = self.redis.hget('experiment_start_times', self.name)
        if t:
            return datetime.strptime(t, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')