# Get difference between two dates in seconds

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-difference-between-two-dates-in-seconds/11641>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [June 13, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-difference-between-two-dates-in-seconds/11641 "2018-06-13T12:11:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-difference-between-two-dates-in-seconds/11641/4 "2018-06-13T12:31:55Z")

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Assuming you’re going for human-readable, I would do this.

```julia
julia> Dates.canonicalize(Dates.CompoundPeriod(Dates.DateTime(date2) - Dates.DateTime(date1)))
6 minutes, 23 seconds

```

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