Misc Date Utilities

Provides date subtraction, parsing, and random timestamp generation. Source code on GitHub.

date_difference

For subtracting two dates from each other, provides class DateDifference that can store the difference between two dates, provides some overloaded functionality, and provides some static methods subtract_datetimes and subtract_datestrings to subtract datetimes and formatted date strings, respectively.

simple_parse

A simple parser that is used in the interpretation of date strings, provides parse_raw_date_string to get a datetime from a string formatted as "%Y-%m-%d " (note the trailing space), or as "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M".

random_timestamps

Functionality for getting a random time within a specified range, provides generate_random_timestamp to generates a random timestamp in the range [00:00:00 - hours:minutes:seconds).

tests

Unit tests are provided for subtract_datestrings.