Handler is the general purpose request function for the td-ameritrade api, all functions will be routed through this handler function, which does all of the API calling work It performs a GET request after adding the apikey found in the .APIKEY file in the same directory as the program calling the function, then returns the body of the GET request's return.

Now returns a string; containing the current time in ISO 8601 format: This is the standard datetime format for quotes and dataframes across this library.

Trim the FIRST character in the string.

Trim the FIRST & LAST character in the string.

Trim the LAST character in the string.