datetime is giving very spooky results:
In:
tz = pytz.timezone('America/New_York')
d1 = datetime.now(tz)
d2 = datetime.now(tz) + timedelta(seconds=0)
delta = d1-d2
print(delta, delta.seconds, delta.total_seconds(), sep="\n")
Out:
-1 day, 23:59:59.999930
86399
-7e-05
I have tried with and without timezones, with and without timedelta(seconds = 0) and have gotten the same result.
When I do:
tz = pytz.timezone('America/New_York')
d1 = datetime.now(tz)
d2 = d1 + timedelta(seconds=0)
delta = d1-d2
print(delta, delta.seconds, delta.total_seconds(), sep="\n")
I get 0 as expected. What have I done?!
I am importing as follows (if this could be the issue):
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import pytz
I was reading the delta print out wrong, I didn't realize it was -1 day + 23:59. Oops..
You're calling datetime.now() twice. Of course some amount of time passed between those two calls.
Your delta calculation is backwards. It should be:
delta = d2-d1