I was searching for a way to find the difference between two timestamps. My requirement is to get the difference in terms of years, months, days, hours and minutes. I found a way to get it. The below code contains the logic to get the required output. I haven’t seen this code anywhere in internet, that is the reason I am posting this here so that this will be helpful for someone.
| __author__ = 'Amal G Jose' | |
| from datetime import datetime | |
| from dateutil import relativedelta | |
| ##Aug 7 1989 8:10 pm | |
| date_1 = datetime(1989, 8, 7, 20, 10) | |
| ##Dec 5 1990 5:20 am | |
| date_2 = datetime(1990, 12, 5, 5, 20) | |
| #This will find the difference between the two dates | |
| difference = relativedelta.relativedelta(date_2, date_1) | |
| years = difference.years | |
| months = difference.months | |
| days = difference.days | |
| hours = difference.hours | |
| minutes = difference.minutes | |
| print "Difference is %s year, %s months, %s days, %s hours, %s minutes " %(years, months, days, hours, minutes) |
Thanks I be searching for a way to do this. Your method is perfect.
he forgot brackets after the “print” function at the very end :3
otherwise it works fine
This was developed for Python version 2.7. The brackets were not required in 2.7. Now with Python 3, we need the brackets.