|timesince Filter

Outputs the amount of time between the value and the to_date argument, which defaults to the current time.

Variables

launch_date = datetime.datetime(year=1969, month=7, day=16,
        hour=13, minute=32, second=0,
        tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)

moon_landing = datetime.datetime(year=1969, month=7, day=21,
        hour=2, minute=56, second=15,
        tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)

Template

{{ moon_landing|timesince }}<br>
{{ launch_date|timesince:moon_landing }}

Result

50 years, 8 months<br>
4 days, 13 hours

The output in the browser will look like this:

50 years, 8 months
4 days, 13 hours

• The first time period is the amount of time that has passed since the moon landing (based on the time this documentation is being written).
• The second time period is the time between the rocket launch and the moment Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon.