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How to Calculate the Difference Between Two Times in Seconds in Julia

Overview

To achieve this, one can use the canonicalize() function of the Dates module¹.

Code

using Dates

tic = DateTime(2022,3,7,7,1,11)
toc = now()
Dates.canonicalize(toc-tic)

The result of executing the above code is as follows.

julia> using Dates

julia> tic = DateTime(2022,3,7,7,1,11)
2022-03-07T07:01:11

julia> toc = now()
2022-07-19T22:26:22.070

julia> Dates.canonicalize(toc-tic)
19 weeks, 1 day, 15 hours, 25 minutes, 11 seconds, 70 milliseconds

It automatically calculates and outputs up to weeks, precisely as multiples of smaller units.

Environment

• OS: Windows
• julia: v1.7.0