How Many Seconds Are There Till End Of Month?

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Submitted by sudheer on Mon, 09/17/2012 - 12:39

(datetime.datetime(datetime.datetime.today().year, datetime.datetime.today().month, calendar.monthrange(datetime.datetime.today().year, datetime.datetime.today().month)[1]) - datetime.datetime.today()).total_seconds()

There's a log going on in that one liner. Let's break it down.

The two key Python modules we need to calculate the number of seconds till the end of year are datetime and calendar.

calendar.monthrange(year, month) returns a tuple. The tuple's second element is the number of days in the month.

We create two date objects:
date object 1: today
date object 2: the last day of the month

We subtract object 1 from object 2. Finally, we call .total_seconds() on the resultant object.

>>> import datetime
>>> import calendar
>>> (datetime.datetime(datetime.datetime.today().year, datetime.datetime.today().month, calendar.monthrange(datetime.datetime.today().year, datetime.datetime.today().month)[1]) - datetime.datetime.today()).total_seconds()
1290914.259939
>>>

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