I’m basically a PHP developer, but there was a situation where I have to work with a Python script, you know what? I have to find hours between two times, but that was not so easy for me. Even I searched in Google a lot, I couldn’t find an easy method to calculate hours between two times in Python.
Finally, after a long time of research I got some code which helped to find days between two dates, then I sat for sometime and wrote a script which gives hours minutes and seconds between two dates.
Here is the script:
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from datetime import datetime #set the date and time format date_format = "%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S" #convert string to actual date and time time1 = datetime.strptime('8-01-2008 00:00:00', date_format) time2 = datetime.strptime('8-02-2008 01:30:00', date_format) #find the difference between two dates diff = time2 - time1 ''' days and overall hours between two dates ''' print ('Days & Overall hours from the above two dates') #print days days = diff.days print (str(days) + ' day(s)') #print overall hours days_to_hours = days * 24 diff_btw_two_times = (diff.seconds) / 3600 overall_hours = days_to_hours + diff_btw_two_times print (str(overall_hours) + ' hours'); ''' now print only the time difference ''' ''' between two times (date is ignored) ''' print ('\nTime difference between two times (date is not considered)') #like days there is no hours in python #but it has seconds, finding hours from seconds is easy #just divide it by 3600 hours = (diff.seconds) / 3600 print (str(hours) + ' Hours') #same for minutes just divide the seconds by 60 minutes = (diff.seconds) / 60 print (str(minutes) + ' Minutes') #to print seconds, you know already ;) print (str(diff.seconds) + ' secs') |
Read the comments in the program to understand it.
Enjoy the day.
>>> import datetime
>>>
>>> d1 = datetime.datetime(2014,11,1,23,59,59)
>>> d2 = datetime.datetime(2014,11,10,20,0,9)
>>>
>>> (d2-d1).total_seconds()/60/60 # hours
212.00277777777777
>>>
😀