Subtracting dates to get hours and minutes

[Weatherby,Gerard]

The difference between two datetime objects is a timedelta object. https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#timedelta-objects . It has a total_seconds() method.

This is a simple task, unless one of the datetimes has a time zone specified and the other doesn’t.

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Date: Monday, December 12, 2022 at 11:37 AM
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Subject: Re: Subtracting dates to get hours and minutes
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my approach would be to convert your two date/times to seconds from
epoch - e.g.
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subtract the number, divide the resultant by 3600 (hours) & get the
modulus for minutes.  There's probably a standard function - it should
be /very/ easy to do.

- Marc

On 12/12/2022 5:01 pm, Steve GS wrote:
> How do I subtract two time/dates and calculate the hours and minutes
> between?
> Steve
>
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