app/django/utils/timesince.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:42:44 +0000
changeset 2246 c29272f640b0
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Tweak the 'load balancing' algorithm In order to reduce contention we randomly skipped jobs, but this caused many jobs to end up stopping early. Now instead we keep on going until we time out (also increased the chance of doing work). Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier

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 not now:
        if d.tzinfo:
            now = datetime.datetime.now(LocalTimezone(d))
        else:
            now = datetime.datetime.now()

    # 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 not now:
        if getattr(d, 'tzinfo', None):
            now = datetime.datetime.now(LocalTimezone(d))
        else:
            now = datetime.datetime.now()
    return timesince(now, d)