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))