Standard class for time *period*?

[Thomas Passin]

On 3/27/2023 11:34 AM, rbowman wrote:
> 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.

I second this.  timedelta should give the OP exactly what he's talking 
about.