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André
André

Reputation: 25554

Python - How to calculate the elapsed time since X date?

I have a database table with articles and each one of this articles have a submitted date. I need to calculate the days and hours since the article have been published in the database, like:

This article has been published 4 hours ago.
This article has been published 3 days and 4 hours ago.

There are already some code that I can reuse to do this? I've searched on google, but maybe I'm not using the correct words.

Any clue that could help me?

Best Regards,

Upvotes: 7

Views: 18124

Answers (2)

Mark Ransom
Mark Ransom

Reputation: 308186

Have a look at the datetime package, it has everything you need.

when you subtract one datetime from another, you get a timedelta object. You can use total_seconds() to get the duration in seconds and use division to convert it to hours and days. Then your only job then is to format it into a readable string.

Upvotes: 11

David Wolever
David Wolever

Reputation: 154494

I'd convert the submitted date into a datetime, then use something like https://gist.github.com/207624 to convert the datetime to a humanized string.

Upvotes: 3

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