Time difference seconds

I'm a bit lost! I'm trying to figure out if a button was released within 1 second. I have an Indigo Trigger timestamping the ButtonPress_on, with this python script measuring the ButtonPress_off:

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from datetime import time

ButtonPress_on = indigo.variables[27640136] # "var_SpotifyButtonPress"

timeDelta = datetime.now() - ButtonPress_on.value
if timeDelta.seconds > 1:
   indigo.server.log("long press")
else:
   indigo.server.log("short press")

1. what format is the date string in the variable?
2. the variable is a date STRING, not a datetime object
3. import datetime from datetime
then use datetime.now()
but thats just the start.

you should read on the datetime arithmetics .. and that is actually complicated

in principle:
import time
import datetime
1. get date time string from your variable
timeString = indigo.variables[27640136] .value
2. convert that string to "time since epoch" (the "%Y has to match the datetime string format in your variable)
timeWhenButtonPressed = time.mktime(time.strptime(timeString, "%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S"))
deltaTime = time.time()- timeWhenButtonPressed

if deltaTime >1:
xx
else:
yy

Thank you so much!