Python datetime timedelta in seconds

Convert timedelta to seconds in Python

This article will discuss how we can convert the datetime module’s timedelta object to total seconds in python.

A little insight about the problem in hand,

In the datetime module, the datetime.timedelta represents the difference between two dates, time, or datetime objects. For example, we have two timestamps as datetime objects,

from datetime import datetime time_1 = datetime(2020, 8, 1, 2, 10, 17, 100000) time_2 = datetime(2020, 8, 1, 3, 15, 12, 200002)

If you want the duration between these two timestamps, you can subtract these two datetime objects. It will give a timedelta i.e.

# Get different between two datetime as timedelta object. diff = (time_2 - time_1) print(diff) print( type(diff) )

This timedelta object contains the time difference between two datetime objects. But on printing it, we get the absolute difference in hh:mm::ss.ffffff format. What if, you want the absolute duration in total seconds only? For that we can convert this timedelta object to seconds only. Let’s see how to do that,

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Convert timedelta to seconds in python

The timedelta object represents a duration between to time points. It has a function total_seconds(), which gives the total seconds in the complete duration of timedelta object. Let’s use this function,

# Convert timedelta object to Seconds diff_in_seconds = diff.total_seconds() print("Total Time Difference : <> Seconds".format(diff_in_seconds) )

Total Time Difference : 3895.100002 Seconds

We got the difference between two timestamps in seconds only by converting timedelta to seconds.

But we got the seconds with decimal part too. If you interesed in only absolute number, then you can round off the value i.e.

# Convert timedelta object to Seconds diff_in_seconds = diff.total_seconds() # Round of the Seconds value diff_in_seconds = round(diff_in_seconds) print("Total Time Difference : <> Seconds".format(diff_in_seconds) )

Total Time Difference : 3895 Seconds

The complete working example is as follows,

from datetime import datetime time_1 = datetime(2020, 8, 1, 2, 10, 17, 100000) time_2 = datetime(2020, 8, 1, 3, 15, 12, 200002) # Get different between two datetime as timedelta object. diff = (time_2 - time_1) print(diff) print( type(diff) ) # Convert timedelta object to Seconds diff_in_seconds = diff.total_seconds() print("Total Time Difference : <> Seconds".format(diff_in_seconds) ) # Round of the Seconds value diff_in_seconds = round(diff_in_seconds) print("Total Time Difference : <> Seconds".format(diff_in_seconds) )

1:04:55.100002 Total Time Difference : 3895.100002 Seconds Total Time Difference : 3895 Seconds

Today we learned that how we can convert datetime.timedelta to seconds in python.

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Convert timedelta to Seconds in Python (Example)

This tutorial explains how to convert a timedelta object into seconds in the Python programming language.

The article will consist of these contents:

Let’s jump right to the tutorial!

Example Data

As a first step, we have to import the datetime module:

import datetime # Load datetime module

Let’s also construct some example data:

dt_1 = datetime.datetime(2023, 12, 5, 10, 30, 47) # Create first datetime object print(dt_1) # 2023-12-05 10:30:47

dt_2 = datetime.datetime(2022, 11, 9, 5, 38, 15) # Create second datetime object print(dt_2) # 2022-11-09 05:38:15

As you can see based on the previous outputs of the Python console, we have just created two datetime objects.

In the next step, I’m going to subtract those two dates and times from each other:

td = dt_1 - dt_2 # Subtract datetimes print(td) # Print timedelta object # 391 days, 4:52:32

As you can see, our new data object shows 391 days and 4 hours, 52 minutes, and 32 seconds.

Let’s check the data type of this data object:

print(type(td)) # Test data type of data object #

We have created a timedelta object.

Example: Transform timedelta Object to Seconds Using total_seconds() Function

The following Python code illustrates how to convert a timedelta object to seconds. For this task, we’ll use the total_seconds function:

td_sec = td.total_seconds() # Apply total_seconds function print(td_sec) # Print seconds # 33799952.0

As you can see, the corresponding seconds to our example timedelta object are shown in the previous output, i.e. 33799952 seconds.

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