human-dates2 1.2.0

Installation

$ pip install human_dates

time_ago_in_words Usage

from human_dates import time_ago_in_words, beginning_of_day

print time_ago_in_words()
#prints "just now"

print time_ago_in_words(beginning_of_day())
# prints "8 hours ago"

Natural Language Helpers

from human_dates import *

print beginning_of_day()
print beginning_of_hour()
print beginning_of_year()
print end_of_month()
# and so on ....

# you can also pass a datetime to each of these functions
import human_dates
from datetime import datetime
date = datetime.strptime('Feb 13 2008  1:33PM', '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')
result = human_dates.end_of_month(date)
print result
# 2008-02-29 23:59:59.999999

Alternatives

• Delorean: http://delorean.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html (<– please look at this before using human_dates. It’s heavyweight for me but might be great for you)

Other Important Time Libraries

• DateUtil: http://labix.org/python-dateutil

• PyTz: http://pytz.sourceforge.net/