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datetime to timestamp
Aug 11 '06, 01:15 PM
Hi.
How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert
a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datet ime.fromtimesta mp(), but the
other way around...?)
-Simen
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Re: datetime to timestamp
On 11/08/2006 11:10 PM, Simen Haugen wrote:
Hi.
>
How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert
a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datet ime.fromtimesta mp(), but the
other way around...?)
>
-Simen
>
Is the timetuple() method what you want?
#>>import datetime
#>>n = datetime.dateti me.now()
#>>n
datetime.dateti me(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 109000)
#>>n.timetuple( )
(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 4, 223, -1)
Cheers,
John
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Re: datetime to timestamp
On 11/08/2006 11:35 PM, John Machin wrote:
On 11/08/2006 11:10 PM, Simen Haugen wrote:
>Hi.
>>
>How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert
>a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datet ime.fromtimesta mp(), but the
>other way around...?)
>>
>-Simen
>>
>
Is the timetuple() method what you want?
>
#>>import datetime
#>>n = datetime.dateti me.now()
#>>n
datetime.dateti me(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 109000)
#>>n.timetuple( )
(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 4, 223, -1)
Aaaarrrggghhh no it's not what you want -- looks like you have to do the
arithmetic yourself, starting with toordinal()
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Re: datetime to timestamp
John Machin <sjmachin@lexic on.netwrote:
>On 11/08/2006 11:35 PM, John Machin wrote:
>On 11/08/2006 11:10 PM, Simen Haugen wrote:
>>How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert
>>a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datet ime.fromtimesta mp(), but the
>>other way around...?)
>Is the timetuple() method what you want?
[ ... ]
>Aaaarrrggghh h no it's not what you want -- [ ... ]
It is if you only want it to the second. It just needs a time.mktime():
1155307613.4550 381
>>d = datetime.dateti me.fromtimestam p(n)
>>time.mktime(d .timetuple())
1155307613.0
(timetuple() is responsible for the loss of the fractional part.)
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## Comment
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Re: datetime to timestamp
[Simen Haugen]
>>How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert
>>a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datet ime.fromtimesta mp(), but the
>>other way around...?)
[John Machin]
>Is the timetuple() method what you want?
>>
>#>>import datetime
>#>>n = datetime.dateti me.now()
>#>>n
>datetime.datet ime(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 109000)
>#>>n.timetuple ()
>(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 4, 223, -1)
[also John]
Aaaarrrggghhh no it's not what you want
Yes, it is ;-)
-- looks like you have to do the arithmetic yourself, starting with toordinal()
It's just one step from the time tuple:
import time
time.mktime(som e_datetime_obje ct.timetuple())
The datetime module intended to be an island of relative sanity.
Because the range of dates "timestamps " can represent varies across
platforms (and even "the epoch" varies), datetime doesn't even try to
produce timestamps directly -- datetime is more of an alternative to
"seconds from the epoch" schemes. Because datetime objects have
greater range and precision than timestamps, conversion is
problem-free in only one direction. It's not a coincidence that
that's the only direction datetime supplies ;-)
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Re: datetime to timestamp
Tim Peters wrote:
[Simen Haugen]
>How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert
>a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datet ime.fromtimesta mp(), but the
>other way around...?)
>
[John Machin]
Is the timetuple() method what you want?
>
#>>import datetime
#>>n = datetime.dateti me.now()
#>>n
datetime.dateti me(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 109000)
#>>n.timetuple( )
(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 4, 223, -1)
>
[also John]
Aaaarrrggghhh no it's not what you want
>
Yes, it is ;-)
>
-- looks like you have to do the arithmetic yourself, starting with toordinal()
>
It's just one step from the time tuple:
>
import time
time.mktime(som e_datetime_obje ct.timetuple())
>
Thanks, Tim. In mitigation, yer honour, I'd like to draw your attention
to the local time (23:32); the defendant was rushing to do the OP's
RTFantasticM for him before retiring for the night, and not doing it
well enough :-)
Cheers,
John
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