Find out if a date is more than 30 days old

Question

I want to know if insertion_date is older than 30 days. This should detect down to the minute and second of the current time. The value in insertion_date will be dynamically pulled from an API.

Current code only detects up to the day, i need the accuracy to up to the second.

import datetime
import dateutil.parser

insertion_date = dateutil.parser.parse('2017-08-30 14:25:30')
right_now_30_days_ago = datetime.datetime.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=30)

print right_now_30_days_ago #2017-08-31 12:18:40.040594
print insertion_date #2017-08-30 14:25:30

if insertion_date > right_now_30_days_ago:
    print "The insertion date is older than 30 days"

else:
    print "The insertion date is not older than 30 days"

Answer 1

you need to do something on similar lines:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
time_between_insertion = datetime.now() - insertion_date

if  time_between_insertion.days>30:
    print "The insertion date is older than 30 days"

else:
    print "The insertion date is not older than 30 days"

Answer 2

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

print(datetime.now())
datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 5, 7, 25, 37, 836117)

print(datetime.now() - timedelta(days=30))
datetime.datetime(2017, 8, 6, 7, 25, 51, 723674)

As you can see here, it is accurate down to seconds.

The problem is in datetime.today(). You should use datetime.now() instead of datetime.today():

time_since_insertion = datetime.now() - insertion_date

if time_since_insertion.days > 30:
   print("The insertion date is older than 30 days")
else:
  print("The insertion date is not older than 30 days")

Hope it helps!