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How to find time difference using Python?
It is very easy to do date and time maths in Python using time delta objects. Whenever you want to add or subtract to a date/time, use a DateTime.datetime(), then add or subtract date time.time delta() instances. A time delta object represents a duration, the difference between two dates or times. The time delta constructor has the following function signature
DateTime.timedelta([days[, seconds[, microseconds[, milliseconds[, minutes[, hours[, weeks]]]]]]])¶
Note: All arguments are optional and default to 0. Arguments may be ints, longs, or floats, and may be positive or negative. You can read more about it here https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#timedelta-objects
Example
An example of using the time delta objects and dates
import datetime old_time = datetime.datetime.now() print(old_time) new_time = old_time - datetime.timedelta(hours=2, minutes=10) print(new_time)
Output
This will give the output
2018-01-04 11:09:00.694602 2018-01-04 08:59:00.694602
time delta() arithmetic is not supported for date time.time() objects; if you need to use offsets from an existing date time.time() object, just use date time.datetime.combine() to form a date time.date time() instance, do your calculations, and 'extract' the time again with the .time() method.
Subtracting 2 date time objects gives a time delta object. This time delta object can be used to find the exact difference between the 2 date times.
example
t1 = datetime.datetime.now() t2 = datetime.datetime.now() print(t1 - t2) print(type(t1 - t2))
Output
This will give the output
-1 day, 23:59:56.653627 <class 'datetime.timedelta'>
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