Python time to age

Question

I\'m trying to convert a date string into an age.

The string is like: \"Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:45:32 +0200\" and I need to work out how many days old it is.

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Answer 1

If you don't want to use datetime (e.g. if your Python is old and you don't have the module), you can just use the time module.

s = "Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:45:32 +0200"
import time
import email.utils # Using email.utils means we can handle the timezone.
t = email.utils.parsedate_tz(s) # Gets the time.mktime 9-tuple, plus tz
d = time.time() - time.mktime(t[:9]) + t[9] # Gives the difference in seconds.