Convert to UTC Timestamp

Question

//parses some string into that format.
datetime1 = datetime.strptime(somestring, \"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S\")

//gets the seconds from the above date.
timestamp1 = time.mk         


        

Answer 1

You probably want one of these two:

import time
import datetime

from email.Utils import formatdate

rightnow = time.time()

utc = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(rightnow)
print utc

print formatdate(rightnow) 

The two outputs look like this

2009-10-20 14:46:52.725000
Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:46:52 -0000