Standard class for time *period*?

[rbowman]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:00:52 +0200, Loris Bennett wrote:


>   I need to deal with what I call a 'period', which is a span of time
>   limited by two dates, start and end.  The period has a 'duration',
>   which is the elapsed time between start and end.  The duration is
>   essentially a number of seconds, but in my context, because the
>   durations are usually hours or days, I would generally want to display
>   the duration in a format such as "dd-hh:mm:ss"

https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/datetime

Scroll down to timedelta. If '14 days, 13:55:39' isn't good enough you'll 
have to format it yourself.