Date and Time

Date

class gd.datetime.date

DateTime

class gd.datetime.datetime

classmethod from_human_delta(string: str, simple: bool = True) → DT

Convert human time delta to datetime object.

Parameters

• string (str) – Human time delta, like 13 hours ago or in 42 seconds.

• simple (bool) – Whether to parse simple delta, or complex one. Note that complex version can parse simple strings, but not vice-versa. See to_human_delta`() for more information.

Returns

Datetime object from string.

Return type

gd.datetime.datetime

to_human_delta(distance_only: bool = False, simple: bool = True) → str

Convert datetime object to human delta.

Parameters

• self (Optional[gd.datetime.datetime]) – Datetime object to convert to string. If None, unknown is used.

• distance_only (bool) –

  Whether to display distance only.

  distance_only	past time	future time
  False	30 minutes ago	in 10 seconds
  True	30 minutes	10 seconds

• simple (bool) –

  Whether to return simple human delta, or complex one.

  distance_only	simple	time
  False	False	1 hour, 1 minute and 1 second ago
  False	True	1 hour ago
  True	False	1 hour, 1 minute and 1 second
  True	True	1 hour

Returns

Human time delta, like 13 hours ago or 42 seconds.

Return type

str

Time

class gd.datetime.time

TimeDelta

class gd.datetime.timedelta

classmethod from_human(string: str, simple: bool = True) → TD

to_human(distance_only: bool = False, simple: bool = True) → str