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I've got a timedelta. I want the days, hours and minutes from that - either as a tuple or a dictionary... I'm not fussed.
I must have done this a dozen times in a dozen languages over the years but Python usually has a simple answer to everything so I thought I'd ask here before busting out some nauseatingly simple (yet verbose) mathematics.
Mr Fooz raises a good point.
I'm dealing with "listings" (a bit like ebay listings) where each one has a duration. I'm trying to find the time left by doing when_added + duration - now
Am I right in saying that wouldn't account for DST? If not, what's the simplest way to add/subtract an hour?
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How to convert a timedelta to hours. We can follow the same logic to convert a timedelta to hours. Instead of dividing the total_seconds() by the number of seconds in a minute, or dividing the timedelta object by timedelta(minutes=1) , we do it for hour.
We can also convert the timedelta to an integer by dividing it by the timedelta of one day or by extracting its integer part using the astype() attribute.
To get the Total seconds in the duration from the Timedelta object, use the timedelta. total_seconds() method.
If you have a datetime.timedelta value td, td.days already gives you the "days" you want. timedelta values keep fraction-of-day as seconds (not directly hours or minutes) so you'll indeed have to perform "nauseatingly simple mathematics", e.g.:
def days_hours_minutes(td): return td.days, td.seconds//3600, (td.seconds//60)%60 This is a bit more compact, you get the hours, minutes and seconds in two lines.
days = td.days hours, remainder = divmod(td.seconds, 3600) minutes, seconds = divmod(remainder, 60) # If you want to take into account fractions of a second seconds += td.microseconds / 1e6 If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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