from datetime import datetime, timedelta 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)) print(converted1) print(converted1 - timedelta(days=7))