🔒 convert hours to a datetime object

[brisk cape]

hi, i have a question i want to convert hours to a datetime object like "%D;%H;%M. i tried something but it does not work any help

    def convert_duration(self, to_format):
        # hours are float like 399.634
        
        duration = timedelta(hours=self.duration_hours)
        formateerd = datetime.strftime(duration, to_format)
        return formateerd

[latent mountain]

@brisk cape

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[steep plume]

Would the date be today's date?

If it were me, I would get the current date time as now(), and then add the duration on to the current date time with + duration

[slender dragon]

Do you have some example inputs and outputs?

I think it would be easier to just do the formatting manually

[brisk cape]

The duration_hours look like 1385.807

Or 399.643

[copper pecan]

but what would a datetime look like that corresponds to 399 hours?

[brisk cape]

Its not the date of today its is the duration of something

[copper pecan]

A datetime is not a duration

[brazen pasture]

True i think what we want is deltatime or something

[steep plume]

OK so input is 399.643 hours. What does output look like?

[brisk cape]

Example what i got = input: 165.972 output: '06:21:58'

[steep plume]

hmm

[brisk cape]

Maybe if i do it manually with timedelta

[copper pecan]

6 days, 21 hours, 58 minutes?

[brisk cape]

I saw something like hours = duration.hours

[brisk cape]

Yes

[steep plume]

the duration has days and seconds attributes that you can make use of

[brisk cape]

I will try

[steep plume]

!e

from datetime import timedelta

duration_timedelta = timedelta(hours=165.972)
days = duration_timedelta.days
seconds = duration_timedelta.seconds
    
print(f"{days=}, {seconds=}")

[latent mountain]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

days=6, seconds=79099

[steep plume]

Then the rest is just math

[slender dragon]

I don't think you need the datetime module here at all

Just use // and %

[copper pecan]

good old divmod

[snow pine]

yall needa help me bro

im cooked

[latent mountain]

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