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discord.py How can I send a message if difference between the time of message and current time is above time I specified?

byMR

July 23, 2022

timestamp = f'{message.created_at}'
msg_time = datetime.strptime(timestamp, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f')
now_time = datetime.now()
diff = now_time - msg_time


print('msg_time:', msg_time)
print('now_time:', now_time)
print('diff    :', diff)

output :

msg_time: 2022-07-22 06:02:12.934000
now_time: 2022-07-23 01:53:52.375086
diff    : 19:51:39.441086

If diff is greater than the time I specify, I want it to send a message to the channel like this:

if diff > 00:01:00.000000:
  title2 = "test."
  embed2 = discord.Embed(title=title2, color=0xf1c40f)
  msg = await channels.send(embed=embed2)

I made it here so that if it’s longer than 1 minute, it can be sent, but I don’t know exactly, so it doesn’t work, how can I do it?

>Solution :

Try using timedelta.total_seconds()

diff = diff.total_seconds()

This will convert the time difference into an integer representing the time in seconds. You can use that value much easier.

References:

https://pythontic.com/datetime/timedelta/total_seconds

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-timedelta-total_seconds-method-with-example/