Determining Amazon EC2 instance creation date/time

Question

Is it possible to determine (via boto) when a particular EC2 instance was created?

http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ref/ec2.html doesn\'t seem to be giving any

Answer 1

if you want to calculate the current uptime based on launchtime of an EC2 instance, one can try this:

import datetime
lt_datetime = datetime.datetime.strptime(i.launch_time, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')
lt_delta = datetime.datetime.utcnow() - lt_datetime
uptime = str(lt_delta)