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 Thursday, March 22, 2007

Python - Convert Date/Time to Epoch

I'm not sure why, but this took me forever to figure out; so I'm posting it here for others...

Let's say you have a string representing a date and a time and you want to convert it to epoch time (# secs since the epoch).

First you will need to create a pattern for your time format, using time format directives.

For example, the pattern for:

'2007-02-05 16:15:18'

Would be:

'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

You can then convert it to epoch like this:

int(time.mktime(time.strptime('2007-02-05 16:15:18', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')))


Now in a script:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import time

date_time = '2007-02-05 16:15:18'
pattern = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
epoch = int(time.mktime(time.strptime(date_time, pattern)))
print epoch
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