from __future__ import unicode_literals import calendar import datetime from django.utils.html import avoid_wrapping from django.utils.timezone import is_aware, utc from django.utils.translation import ugettext, ungettext_lazy TIMESINCE_CHUNKS = ( (60 * 60 * 24 * 365, ungettext_lazy('%d year', '%d years')), (60 * 60 * 24 * 30, ungettext_lazy('%d month', '%d months')), (60 * 60 * 24 * 7, ungettext_lazy('%d week', '%d weeks')), (60 * 60 * 24, ungettext_lazy('%d day', '%d days')), (60 * 60, ungettext_lazy('%d hour', '%d hours')), (60, ungettext_lazy('%d minute', '%d minutes')) ) def timesince(d, now=None, reversed=False): """ Takes two datetime objects and returns the time between d and now as a nicely formatted string, e.g. "10 minutes". If d occurs after now, then "0 minutes" is returned. Units used are years, months, weeks, days, hours, and minutes. Seconds and microseconds are ignored. Up to two adjacent units will be displayed. For example, "2 weeks, 3 days" and "1 year, 3 months" are possible outputs, but "2 weeks, 3 hours" and "1 year, 5 days" are not. Adapted from http://web.archive.org/web/20060617175230/http://blog.natbat.co.uk/archive/2003/Jun/14/time_since """ # Convert datetime.date to datetime.datetime for comparison. if not isinstance(d, datetime.datetime): d = datetime.datetime(d.year, d.month, d.day) if now and not isinstance(now, datetime.datetime): now = datetime.datetime(now.year, now.month, now.day) if not now: now = datetime.datetime.now(utc if is_aware(d) else None) delta = (d - now) if reversed else (now - d) # Deal with leapyears by subtracing the number of leapdays delta -= datetime.timedelta(calendar.leapdays(d.year, now.year)) # ignore microseconds since = delta.days * 24 * 60 * 60 + delta.seconds if since <= 0: # d is in the future compared to now, stop processing. return avoid_wrapping(ugettext('0 minutes')) for i, (seconds, name) in enumerate(TIMESINCE_CHUNKS): count = since // seconds if count != 0: break result = avoid_wrapping(name % count) if i + 1 < len(TIMESINCE_CHUNKS): # Now get the second item seconds2, name2 = TIMESINCE_CHUNKS[i + 1] count2 = (since - (seconds * count)) // seconds2 if count2 != 0: result += ugettext(', ') + avoid_wrapping(name2 % count2) return result def timeuntil(d, now=None): """ Like timesince, but returns a string measuring the time until the given time. """ return timesince(d, now, reversed=True)