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Jesper.Lindberg
Jesper.Lindberg

Reputation: 339

Calculate time difference only considering hours

I want to calculate the time difference in hour not considering the date.

For example I want the difference between 22:00:00 and 01:00:00 to be 3.

The code I got so far: 

time1 = datetime.strptime("22:00:00", '%H:%M:%S')
time2 = datetime.strptime("01:00:00", '%H:%M:%S')
res = time1-time2
print(res)

The output I got: 21:00:00

The output I want: 3

Upvotes: 1

Views: 70

Answers (1)

yatu
yatu

Reputation: 88236

You cannot extract the hours directly from the resulting timedelta object, as they keep fraction-of-day as seconds, so a simple workaround is to take the seconds and calculate the hours from there.

Also note that you want to subtract time1 to time2, otherwise you will get 21 hours:

(time2 - time1).seconds/3600
# 3

Upvotes: 2

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