- tzinfo
Timezone aware datetime
examples/datetime/time_since.py
import datetime ts = "2022-12-20T11:23:45" # Naive datetime object: dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(ts, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S') now = datetime.datetime.now() print(now) # 2022-12-25 22:39:39.093285 print(dt.tzinfo) # None print(now.tzinfo) # None elapsed = now-dt print(elapsed) # 5 days, 11:15:54.093285 print(elapsed.total_seconds()) # 472554.093285 print() # (Timezone) aware datetime object: dt_utc = datetime.datetime.strptime(f'{ts}+0000', '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z') now_utc = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) print(now_utc) # 2022-12-25 21:39:39.093880+00:00 print(dt_utc.tzinfo) # UTC print(now_utc.tzinfo) # UTC elapsed_utc = now_utc-dt_utc print(elapsed_utc) # 5 days, 10:15:54.093880 print(elapsed_utc.total_seconds()) # 468954.09388