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Python

Posted by Mike Hansen
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Mike Hansen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,419 Points

In social web app in python it says 46 years ago in posted_ago

hi, i noticed that in the post you make it says posted 46 years ago instead of 5 seconds, 2 minutes etc. How do i change that?

2 Answers

Christopher Shaw
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Christopher Shaw
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 58,248 Points
Christopher Shaw
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Christopher Shaw
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 58,248 Points

Hi, this bugged me too, so looked deeper into it.

The problem is that disTime.js that converts the datetime to strings like " 5 days ago " requires a UNIX-Timestamp. The following change worked for me. 

<i class="clock"></i>
<time data-time="{{ post.timestamp.timestamp() }}" class="distime" datetime="{{ post.timestamp.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') }}">{{ post.timestamp.timestamp() }}</time> 
<a href="{{ url_for('view_post', post_id=post.id) }}" class="view">View</a>
Aya Yousef
Aya Yousef
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Aya Yousef
Aya Yousef
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Thanks for sharing that, but for this change alone, you'll get this error:

UndefinedError: 'datetime.datetime object' has no attribute 'timestamp'

There should be something else that needs to be modified.