How to create a DateTime equal to 15 minutes ago?

Question

I need to create a DateTime object that represents the current time minus 15 minutes.

Answer 1

If you are using time.time() and wants timestamp as output

Simply use

CONSTANT_SECONDS = 900 # time  in seconds (900 seconds = 15 min)

current_time = int(time.time())
time_before_15_min = current_time - CONSTANT_SECONDS

You can change 900 seconds as per your required time.

Answer 2

from datetime import timedelta    
datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(0, 900)

Actually 900 is in seconds. Which is equal to 15 minutes. `15*60 = 900`

Answer 3

import datetime and then the magic timedelta stuff:

In [63]: datetime.datetime.now()
Out[63]: datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 27, 14, 39, 19, 700401)

In [64]: datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(minutes=15)
Out[64]: datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 27, 14, 24, 21, 684435)