compare time from nginx to a max timeout

parse_nginx_time.py

#!/usr/bin/python3                                                                          
                                                                                             
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta                                                    
                                                                                             
 # sample logstring from nginx                                                               
 logstring = '185.128.120.94 - - [01/Aug/2020:16:04:47 +0200] "POST /http-bind?room=test      HTTP/2.0" 200 342 "https://foo" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,  like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.85 Safari/537.36"'                                             
                                                                                             
 start = logstring.find('[')+1                                                               
 end = logstring.find(']')                                                                   
 time = logstring[start:end] # 01/Aug/2020:16:04:47 +0200                                    
                                                                                             
 max_diff = timedelta(minutes=15)                                                            
                                                                                             
 # logstring date format https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/datetime/strftime      
 date_format = "%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z"                                                        
                                                                                             
 date_object = datetime.strptime(time, date_format)                                          
 # assume same tz as log                                                                     
 current_time = datetime.now(tz=date_object.tzinfo)                                          
 diff = current_time - date_object                                                           
                                                                                             
 print(str(diff<max_diff))