Refactor datetime recency testing into a tested test helper

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_html.py b/tests/test_html.py
index 6f0b294a..6f6f42e4 100644
--- a/tests/test_html.py
+++ b/tests/test_html.py
@@ -386,16 +386,13 @@ class HtmlTest(HtmlTestHelpers, CoverageTest):
         m = re.search(timestamp_pat, html)
         self.assertTrue(m, "Didn't find a timestamp!")
         timestamp = datetime.datetime(*map(int, m.groups()))
-        age = datetime.datetime.now() - timestamp
-        # Python2.6 doesn't have total_seconds :(
-        self.assertEqual(age.days, 0)
         # The timestamp only records the minute, so the delta could be from
         # 12:00 to 12:01:59, or two minutes.
-        self.assertLessEqual(
-            abs(age.seconds),
-            120,
-            "Timestamp is wrong: {0}".format(timestamp)
-        )
+        self.assert_recent_datetime(
+            timestamp,
+            seconds=120,
+            msg="Timestamp is wrong: {0}".format(timestamp),
+            )
 
 
 class HtmlStaticFileTest(CoverageTest):