>>>print(today - date, (today - date).seconds) [1] 63 days, 8:45:34.250649 31534 ↑ This is far away from the right result. 31534 seconds are much less than 63 days. Why is python giving the wrong value?
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You are only requesting the seconds of the timedelta - you need the timedelta.total_seconds() method.
The timedelta.seconds attribute only reports the seconds from the last day of the delta.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.timedelta.total_seconds
import datetime d1 = datetime.datetime.now() d2 = datetime.datetime.now()-datetime.timedelta(days=1.4) delta = d1-d2 print(delta, delta.seconds, delta.total_seconds(), sep="\n") Output:
1 day, 9:35:59.999997 34559 # (9 * 60 + 35 ) * 60 + 59 ca. 34559 - the full day is not part of ".seconds" 120959.999997 
