Python time differences

Question

I have two time objects.

Example

time.struct_time(tm_year=2010, tm_mon=9, tm_mday=24, tm_hour=19, tm_min=13, tm_sec=37, tm_wday=4, tm_yday=267, tm_is         


        

Answer 1

Time instances do not support the subtraction operation. Given that one way to solve this would be to convert the time to seconds since epoch and then find the difference, use:

>>> t1 = time.localtime()
>>> t1
time.struct_time(tm_year=2010, tm_mon=10, tm_mday=13, tm_hour=10, tm_min=12, tm_sec=27, tm_wday=2, tm_yday=286, tm_isdst=0)
>>> t2 = time.gmtime()
>>> t2
time.struct_time(tm_year=2010, tm_mon=10, tm_mday=13, tm_hour=4, tm_min=42, tm_sec=37, tm_wday=2, tm_yday=286, tm_isdst=0)

>>> (time.mktime(t1) - time.mktime(t2)) / 60
329.83333333333331