a silly little script to calculate the differences between time

feed it a string from date using the format at the bottom of the script


#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import datetime

class timediff:
  strarg=""
  def __init__(self, args=sys.argv[1:]):
    print 'time is now: ', datetime.datetime.utcnow()
    print 'your input was: ',args
    self.strarg=args


  def toDT(self, thenstr):
    strpformat="%Y,%m,%d,%H,%M,%S"
    try:
      return datetime.datetime.strptime(thenstr, strpformat)
    except:
      print "there is something wrong with your input, did you use format like: ", strpformat
      sys.exit(-1)

  def thennow(self, then, now=datetime.datetime.now() ):
    timediff = (now - then)
    minutes = timediff.days*1440 + timediff.seconds/60
    return minutes
  # print number of minutes between then and .now()
#  date +%Y,%m,%d,%H,%M,%S