import datetime, math, time from django.utils.tzinfo import LocalTimezone from django.utils.translation import ngettext, gettext def timesince(d, now=None): """ Takes two datetime objects and returns the time between then and now as a nicely formatted string, e.g "10 minutes" Adapted from http://blog.natbat.co.uk/archive/2003/Jun/14/time_since """ chunks = ( (60 * 60 * 24 * 365, lambda n: ngettext('year', 'years', n)), (60 * 60 * 24 * 30, lambda n: ngettext('month', 'months', n)), (60 * 60 * 24 * 7, lambda n : ngettext('week', 'weeks', n)), (60 * 60 * 24, lambda n : ngettext('day', 'days', n)), (60 * 60, lambda n: ngettext('hour', 'hours', n)), (60, lambda n: ngettext('minute', 'minutes', n)) ) # Convert datetime.date to datetime.datetime for comparison if d.__class__ is not datetime.datetime: d = datetime.datetime(d.year, d.month, d.day) if now: t = now.timetuple() else: t = time.localtime() if d.tzinfo: tz = LocalTimezone(d) else: tz = None now = datetime.datetime(t[0], t[1], t[2], t[3], t[4], t[5], tzinfo=tz) # ignore microsecond part of 'd' since we removed it from 'now' delta = now - (d - datetime.timedelta(0, 0, d.microsecond)) since = delta.days * 24 * 60 * 60 + delta.seconds for i, (seconds, name) in enumerate(chunks): count = since / seconds if count != 0: break if count < 0: return gettext('%d milliseconds') % math.floor((now - d).microseconds / 1000) s = gettext('%(number)d %(type)s') % {'number': count, 'type': name(count)} if i + 1 < len(chunks): # Now get the second item seconds2, name2 = chunks[i + 1] count2 = (since - (seconds * count)) / seconds2 if count2 != 0: s += gettext(', %(number)d %(type)s') % {'number': count2, 'type': name2(count2)} return s def timeuntil(d, now=None): """ Like timesince, but returns a string measuring the time until the given time. """ if now == None: now = datetime.datetime.now() return timesince(now, d)