Convert QDate to seconds

Question

I take date from QDateTimeEdit and convert it to seconds like this:

import time
from datetime import datetime

date = self.__ui.dateTimeEdit.date().         


        

Answer 1

The QDate you get from

self.__ui.dateTimeEdit.date()

has another method toPyDate that will save you the round trip through a string.

Answer 2

Use QDateTime.toMSecsSinceEpoch:

>>> import PyQt4.QtCore
>>> d = PyQt4.QtCore.QDateTime(2014, 2, 20, 17, 10, 30)
>>> d.toMSecsSinceEpoch() / 1000
1392883830L

UPDATE

Alternative using QDateTime.toTime_t:

>>> d = PyQt4.QtCore.QDateTime(2014, 2, 20, 17, 10, 30)
>>> d.toTime_t()
1392883830L