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Reputation: 23

difference between folder last modified date and current time in python

I have a folder, I need to check if since last 2 minutes, no changes have been made to it. so I plan to check the last modified time of folder by using this :

os.stat(currFolder).st_mtime;

now how to take current time in such a way and subtract it so that I can know that since last 2 mins, no modification has been done.

I checked on google, but seems format of time was confusing to me. Can someone please help on this ?

Regards

Upvotes: 0

Views: 804

Answers (1)

Epsi95
Epsi95

Reputation: 9047

You can convert the timestamp to the python datetime object and check the difference between it and now.

import datetime

def is_folder_updated(threshold_in_minutes = 2):
    last_forder_update_timestamp = os.stat('./').st_mtime

    last_folder_update_datetime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(last_forder_update_timestamp)
    current_datetime = datetime.datetime.now()

    difference = current_datetime - last_folder_update_datetime
    
    return (difference.total_seconds()/60) < threshold_in_minutes

is_folder_updated()

Upvotes: 1

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