experimenting with datetimes

datetime_test.py

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+from datetime import datetime
+from time import time
+
+timestamp1 = "Feb 12 08:02:32 2014"
+timestamp2 = "Feb 21 11:52:02 2014"
+
+converted1 = datetime.strptime(timestamp1, "%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y")
+converted2 = datetime.strptime(timestamp2, "%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y")
+
+print(converted1)
+print(converted2)
+
+difference = converted2 - converted1
+days_extracted = difference.days
+
+print(difference)
+
+def days_to_minutes(days):
+    hours = days * 24
+    minutes = hours * 60
+    return minutes
+
+print(days_to_minutes(days_extracted))