tformat 0.1.0

Efficient conversion of timestamps to human-readable equivalents

The Problem

You have a timestamp from somewhere (a database, elapsed timer, whatever) that you need to cleanly display.

Google presents a variety of solutions which are either half baked, partially broken, unnecessarily complex or just plain ugly.

I got tired of implementing this in different ways across different projects, so here we are.

>>> from tformat import format_time
>>> format_time(290390, ms=False)
'3 days, 8 hours, 39 minutes and 50 seconds'

>>> format_time(36400000, ms=True)
'10 hours, 6 minutes and 40 seconds'

>>> format_time(time.time())
'2662 weeks, 2 days, 20 hours, 8 minutes and 14 seconds'

Installation

From pip:

pip install tformat

Or from source:

git clone https://github.com/cartertemm/tformat.git
cd tformat
pip install .

Or just copy the file (or it's contents) to where ever it fits in your project.

Licensing

As part of an effort to publicize more of the code/libraries I use every day, this software is both released under the MIT and into the public domain. Choose which ever you prefer.

MIT

Copyright (c) 2025 Carter Temm

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Public Domain

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.

In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this software under copyright law.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.