Datetime module supplies classes to work with date and time. These classes provide a number of functions to deal with dates, times and time intervals. Date and datetime are an object in Python, so when you manipulate them, you are actually manipulating objects and not string or timestamps.
Note: For more information, refer to Python datetime module with examples
Example:
# Python program to demonstrate# datetime module import datetime dt = datetime.date(2020, 1, 26)# prints the date as date# objectprint(dt) # prints the current dateprint(datetime.date.today()) # prints the date and timedt = datetime.datetime(1999, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 342380) print(dt) # prints the current date # and timeprint(datetime.datetime.now()) |
Output:
2020-01-26 2020-02-04 1999-12-12 12:12:12.342380 2020-02-04 07:46:29.315237
Getting the UTC timestamp
Use the datetime.datetime.now() to get the current date and time. Then use tzinfo class to convert our datetime to UTC. Lastly, use the timestamp() to convert the datetime object, in UTC, to get the UTC timestamp.
Example:
from datetime import timezoneimport datetime # Getting the current date# and timedt = datetime.datetime.now(timezone.utc) utc_time = dt.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)utc_timestamp = utc_time.timestamp() print(utc_timestamp) |
Output:
1615975803.787904
