How to Convert Seconds to Years with Python

The time() method of Python's time module returns the seconds since the epoch (1/1/1970 at midnight). To convert the number of seconds to years with Python, divide by seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day, and days in a year.

1. Start with a number of seconds. time.time() will return something in the neighborhood of 1466604569.0708675:

   import time
   seconds = time.time()
   print(seconds)

   Output:

   1466604569.0708675

2. Divide by 60 to get the number of minutes:

   minutes = seconds / 60
   print(minutes)

   Output:

   24443409.48451446

3. Divide by 60 to get the number of hours:

   hours = minutes / 60
   print(hours)

   Output:

   407390.158075241

4. Divide by 24 to get the number of days:

   days = hours / 24
   print(days)

   Output:

   16974.58991980171

5. Divide by 365.25 to get the number of years:

   years = days / 365.25
   print(years)

   Output:

   46.47389437317374

Or you can do it all in one step, like this: