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How do I return or turn a timedelta, which is bigger than 24 hours, into an object containing the total hours and minutes (for example, 26:30) instead of "1 day, 2:30"?

Peter Mortensen
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You can use total_seconds() to compute the number of seconds. This can then be turned into minutes or hours:

>>> datetime.timedelta(days=3).total_seconds()
259200.0
Simeon Visser
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    Right answer, but it would be helpful to add the simple `//60` and `%60` uses needed to turn it into an (hours, days) pair! – Alex Martelli Jan 13 '15 at 00:13
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    Thanks. I ended using the answer I found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14190045/how-to-convert-datetime-timedelta-to-minutes-hours-in-python – ThomasD Jan 13 '15 at 15:47
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Completing the answer of Visser using timedelta.total_seconds() :

import datetime
duration = datetime.timedelta(days = 2, hours = 4, minutes = 15)

Once we got a timedelta object:

totsec = duration.total_seconds()
h = totsec//3600
m = (totsec%3600) // 60
sec =(totsec%3600)%60 #just for reference
print "%d:%d" %(h,m)

Out: 52:15
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offset_seconds = timedelta.total_seconds()

if offset_seconds < 0:
    sign = "-"
else:
    sign = "+"

# we will prepend the sign while formatting
if offset_seconds < 0:
    offset_seconds *= -1

offset_hours = offset_seconds / 3600.0
offset_minutes = (offset_hours % 1) * 60

offset = "{:02d}:{:02d}".format(int(offset_hours), int(offset_minutes))
offset = sign + offset
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