Python - Date & Time Comparison using timestamps, timedelta

Question

I\'ve spent the past hour digging around the Python docs and many SO questions; please forgive me for being another Python newbie trapped by the mystery of time difference i

Answer 1

I had the same problem couple of months ago. What you are looking for is datetime.timedelta and datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(). Here is an example for how to use them to fix your problem.

import datetime
import time
t1 = time.time()
#do something to kill time or get t2 from somewhere
a = [i for i in range(1000)]
t2 = time.time()
#get the difference as datetime.timedelta object
diff=(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t1) - datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t2))
#diff is negative as t2 is in the future compared to t2
print('difference is {0} seconds'.format(abs(diff.total_seconds())))