Converting between dates and unix time in Python
Thu Oct 13, 2011
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Going from a date to a unix time:
>>> from datetime import date
>>> from time import mktime
>>> start = date(2011, 9, 26)
>>> mktime(start.timetuple())
1316991600.0Going from a unix time to a date:
>>> from time import strftime
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(int("1284101485")).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
'2010-09-10 07:51:25'