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What is a classy way to store date and time information in a float in python with millisecond precision? Edit: I'm using python 2.7 I've hacked together the following: DT = datetime.datetime(2016,01,...

example = datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 19, 14, 18, 49, 435413, tzinfo=psycopg2.tz.FixedOffsetTimezone(offset=-240, name=None)) datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(example.timetuple())) datetime....

How do I get the current time in milliseconds in Python?

How do I convert a datetime string in local time to a string in UTC time? I'm sure I've done this before, but can't find it and SO will hopefully help me (and others) do that in future. ...

Does time.time() in the Python time module return the system's time or the time in UTC?

I have a Python datetime object that I want to convert to unix time, or seconds/milliseconds since the 1970 epoch. How do I do this?

How to convert a string in the format "%d/%m/%Y" to timestamp? "01/12/2011" -> 1322697600

Python provides different packages (datetime, time, calendar) as can be seen here in order to deal with time. I made a big mistake by using the following to get current GMT time time.mktime(datetime....

I have a python datetime instance that was created using datetime.utcnow() and persisted in database. For display, I would like to convert the datetime instance retrieved from the database to local ...

I have a bunch of datetime objects and I want to calculate the number of seconds since a fixed time in the past for each one (for example since January 1, 1970). import datetime t = datetime.datetime(...

I have to create an "Expires" value 5 minutes in the future, but I have to supply it in UNIX Timestamp format. I have this so far, but it seems like a hack. def expires(): '''return a UNIX style ...

I have dt = datetime(2013,9,1,11), and I would like to get a Unix timestamp of this datetime object. When I do (dt - datetime(1970,1,1)).total_seconds() I got the timestamp 1378033200. When ...

I have a time in UTC from which I want the number of seconds since epoch. I am using strftime to convert it to the number of seconds. Taking 1st April 2012 as an example. >>>datetime....

Is there a way to get the UTC timestamp by specifying the date? What I would expect: datetime(2008, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0) should result in 1199145600 Creating a naive datetime object means that there ...

In Python, how do you find what UTC time offset the computer is set to?