If I have two dates (ex. '8/18/2008' and '9/26/2008'), what is the best way to get the number of days between these two dates?
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If you have two date objects, you can just subtract them, which computes a timedelta object.
from datetime import date
d0 = date(2008, 8, 18)
d1 = date(2008, 9, 26)
delta = d1 - d0
print(delta.days)
The relevant section of the docs: https://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html.
See this answer for another example.
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44
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Days until Christmas:
>>> import datetime
>>> today = datetime.date.today()
>>> someday = datetime.date(2008, 12, 25)
>>> diff = someday - today
>>> diff.days
86
More arithmetic here.
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You want the datetime module.
>>> from datetime import datetime, timedelta
>>> datetime(2008,08,18) - datetime(2008,09,26)
datetime.timedelta(4)
Another example:
>>> import datetime
>>> today = datetime.date.today()
>>> print(today)
2008-09-01
>>> last_year = datetime.date(2007, 9, 1)
>>> print(today - last_year)
366 days, 0:00:00
As pointed out here
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10
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It also can be easily done with arrow:
import arrow
a = arrow.get('2017-05-09')
b = arrow.get('2017-05-11')
delta = (b-a)
print delta.days
For reference: http://arrow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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everyone has answered excellently using the date, let me try to answer it using pandas
dt = pd.to_datetime('2008/08/18', format='%Y/%m/%d')
dt1 = pd.to_datetime('2008/09/26', format='%Y/%m/%d')
(dt1-dt).days
This will give the answer. In case one of the input is dataframe column. simply use dt.days in place of days
(dt1-dt).dt.days
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without using Lib just pure code:
#Calculate the Days between Two Date
daysOfMonths = [ 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31]
def isLeapYear(year):
# Pseudo code for this algorithm is found at
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year#Algorithm
## if (year is not divisible by 4) then (it is a common Year)
#else if (year is not divisable by 100) then (ut us a leap year)
#else if (year is not disible by 400) then (it is a common year)
#else(it is aleap year)
return (year % 4 == 0 and year % 100 != 0) or year % 400 == 0
def Count_Days(year1, month1, day1):
if month1 ==2:
if isLeapYear(year1):
if day1 < daysOfMonths[month1-1]+1:
return year1, month1, day1+1
else:
if month1 ==12:
return year1+1,1,1
else:
return year1, month1 +1 , 1
else:
if day1 < daysOfMonths[month1-1]:
return year1, month1, day1+1
else:
if month1 ==12:
return year1+1,1,1
else:
return year1, month1 +1 , 1
else:
if day1 < daysOfMonths[month1-1]:
return year1, month1, day1+1
else:
if month1 ==12:
return year1+1,1,1
else:
return year1, month1 +1 , 1
def daysBetweenDates(y1, m1, d1, y2, m2, d2,end_day):
if y1 > y2:
m1,m2 = m2,m1
y1,y2 = y2,y1
d1,d2 = d2,d1
days=0
while(not(m1==m2 and y1==y2 and d1==d2)):
y1,m1,d1 = Count_Days(y1,m1,d1)
days+=1
if end_day:
days+=1
return days
# Test Case
def test():
test_cases = [((2012,1,1,2012,2,28,False), 58),
((2012,1,1,2012,3,1,False), 60),
((2011,6,30,2012,6,30,False), 366),
((2011,1,1,2012,8,8,False), 585 ),
((1994,5,15,2019,8,31,False), 9239),
((1999,3,24,2018,2,4,False), 6892),
((1999,6,24,2018,8,4,False),6981),
((1995,5,24,2018,12,15,False),8606),
((1994,8,24,2019,12,15,True),9245),
((2019,12,15,1994,8,24,True),9245),
((2019,5,15,1994,10,24,True),8970),
((1994,11,24,2019,8,15,True),9031)]
for (args, answer) in test_cases:
result = daysBetweenDates(*args)
if result != answer:
print "Test with data:", args, "failed"
else:
print "Test case passed!"
test()
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There is also a datetime.toordinal() method that was not mentioned yet:
import datetime
print(datetime.date(2008,9,26).toordinal() - datetime.date(2008,8,18).toordinal()) # 39
https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.date.toordinal
date.toordinal()Return the proleptic Gregorian ordinal of the date, where January 1 of year 1 has ordinal 1. For any
dateobject d,date.fromordinal(d.toordinal()) == d.
Seems well suited for calculating days difference, though not as readable as timedelta.days.
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For calculating dates and times, there are several options but I will write the simple way:
from datetime import timedelta, datetime, date
import dateutil.relativedelta
# current time
date_and_time = datetime.now()
date_only = date.today()
time_only = datetime.now().time()
# calculate date and time
result = date_and_time - timedelta(hours=26, minutes=25, seconds=10)
# calculate dates: years (-/+)
result = date_only - dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(years=10)
# months
result = date_only - dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(months=10)
# days
result = date_only - dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(days=10)
# calculate time
result = date_and_time - timedelta(hours=26, minutes=25, seconds=10)
result.time()
Hope it helps
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from datetime import date
def d(s):
[month, day, year] = map(int, s.split('/'))
return date(year, month, day)
def days(start, end):
return (d(end) - d(start)).days
print days('8/18/2008', '9/26/2008')
This assumes, of course, that you've already verified that your dates are in the format r'\d+/\d+/\d+'.
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Here are three ways to go with this problem :
from datetime import datetime
Now = datetime.now()
StartDate = datetime.strptime(str(Now.year) +'-01-01', '%Y-%m-%d')
NumberOfDays = (Now - StartDate)
print(NumberOfDays.days) # Starts at 0
print(datetime.now().timetuple().tm_yday) # Starts at 1
print(Now.strftime('%j')) # Starts at 1
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Without using datetime object in python.
# A date has day 'd', month 'm' and year 'y'
class Date:
def __init__(self, d, m, y):
self.d = d
self.m = m
self.y = y
# To store number of days in all months from
# January to Dec.
monthDays = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30,
31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 ]
# This function counts number of leap years
# before the given date
def countLeapYears(d):
years = d.y
# Check if the current year needs to be considered
# for the count of leap years or not
if (d.m <= 2) :
years-= 1
# An year is a leap year if it is a multiple of 4,
# multiple of 400 and not a multiple of 100.
return int(years / 4 - years / 100 + years / 400 )
# This function returns number of days between two
# given dates
def getDifference(dt1, dt2) :
# COUNT TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS BEFORE FIRST DATE 'dt1'
# initialize count using years and day
n1 = dt1.y * 365 + dt1.d
# Add days for months in given date
for i in range(0, dt1.m - 1) :
n1 += monthDays[i]
# Since every leap year is of 366 days,
# Add a day for every leap year
n1 += countLeapYears(dt1)
# SIMILARLY, COUNT TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS BEFORE 'dt2'
n2 = dt2.y * 365 + dt2.d
for i in range(0, dt2.m - 1) :
n2 += monthDays[i]
n2 += countLeapYears(dt2)
# return difference between two counts
return (n2 - n1)
# Driver program
dt1 = Date(31, 12, 2018 )
dt2 = Date(1, 1, 2019 )
print(getDifference(dt1, dt2), "days")
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If you want to code the calculation yourself, then here is a function that will return the ordinal for a given year, month and day:
def ordinal(year, month, day):
return ((year-1)*365 + (year-1)//4 - (year-1)//100 + (year-1)//400
+ [ 0,31,59,90,120,151,181,212,243,273,304,334][month - 1]
+ day
+ int(((year%4==0 and year%100!=0) or year%400==0) and month > 2))
This function is compatible with the date.toordinal method in the datetime module.
You can get the number of days of difference between two dates as follows:
print(ordinal(2021, 5, 10) - ordinal(2001, 9, 11))
