Folks, How would I convert the following string to a unix epoch timestamp?
Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:55:44 GMT
I can pull in the local http timestamp via the following:
In [53]: now = datetime.now()
In [54]: stamp = mktime(now.timetuple())
In [55]: print format_date_time(stamp)
Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:24:59 GMT
and how would i convert the resulting unix timestamp back to the above format?
Thanks!
>>> import time
>>> int(time.time())
1380817337
>>>
Convert to timestamp:
from datetime import datetime
ts = datetime.strptime("Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:55:44 GMT", "%a, %d %b %Y %X %Z").strftime("%s")
print ts # '1380804944'
Convert back to the original format:
from datetime import datetime
dtime = datetime.fromtimestamp(int('1380804944')).strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %X %Z GMT")
print dtime # 'Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:55:44 '
>>> import email
>>> time.mktime(email.utils.parsedate("Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:55:44 GMT"))
1380804944.0
And back:
>>> f = 1380804944.0
>>> email.utils.formatdate(f, False, True)
'Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:55:44 GMT'
I answered a very similar question earlier today here. Let me know if that works for you.
Basically you need to look at the time.strptime() and time.mktime() functions.
In your case, the format specifier would be:
time.strptime("Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:55:44 GMT", "%a, %d %b %Y %X %Z")
