Datetime Utility Functions

igbpyutils.dt.timedelta_str(td: timedelta) → str

Simple replacement for the timedelta default string formatting with nicer output of negative deltas.

>>> str(timedelta(hours=-1))
'-1 day, 23:00:00'
>>> timedelta_str(timedelta(hours=-1))
'-1:00:00'

Possible alternatives:

• https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/relativedelta.html

• https://pypi.org/project/readabledelta/

Author, Copyright, and License

Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Hauke Daempfling (haukex@zero-g.net) at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany, https://www.igb-berlin.de/

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/