app/django/utils/timesince.py
author Pawel Solyga <Pawel.Solyga@gmail.com>
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:45:13 +0000
changeset 171 b62f1cf5e878
parent 54 03e267d67478
child 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Bug fixes to revision r596. User Account field in Developer User Profile view needs to be an email not a login name. Header title of User Profile Developer view, when form validation failes is now showing correct value ("Modify existing ..." instead of "Create new user ...").

import datetime
import time

from django.utils.tzinfo import LocalTimezone
from django.utils.translation import ungettext, ugettext

def timesince(d, now=None):
    """
    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://blog.natbat.co.uk/archive/2003/Jun/14/time_since
    """
    chunks = (
      (60 * 60 * 24 * 365, lambda n: ungettext('year', 'years', n)),
      (60 * 60 * 24 * 30, lambda n: ungettext('month', 'months', n)),
      (60 * 60 * 24 * 7, lambda n : ungettext('week', 'weeks', n)),
      (60 * 60 * 24, lambda n : ungettext('day', 'days', n)),
      (60 * 60, lambda n: ungettext('hour', 'hours', n)),
      (60, lambda n: ungettext('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
    if since <= 0:
        # d is in the future compared to now, stop processing.
        return u'0 ' + ugettext('minutes')
    for i, (seconds, name) in enumerate(chunks):
        count = since // seconds
        if count != 0:
            break
    s = ugettext('%(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 += ugettext(', %(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)