timestamp

Return POSIX timestamp corresponding to the datetime instance. The return value is a float similar to that returned by time.time().

Syntax

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datetime.timestamp()

Examples

Example 1

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(dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)).total_seconds()

Example 2

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timestamp = dt.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()

Example 3

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timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)) / timedelta(seconds=1)

See Also

datetime float time.time() datetime datetime OverflowError datetime timestamp()