To convert datetime to timestamp, first, you have to import the datetime module, assign datetime to a variable and use the timestamp function to convert it into a timestamp.
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from datetime import datetime my_datetime = datetime(2021, 6, 14, 12, 33, 41) timestamp = my_datetime.timestamp() print("timestamp:", timestamp) print("datetime:", my_datetime) |
If you run the code, both, the timestamp and datetime are printed.
timestamp: 1623666821.0 datetime: 2021-06-14 12:33:41
Convert timestamp to datetime
To convert a timestamp to a datetime, you have to assign the timestamp to a variable. Next, the variable has to be converted to the datetime object.
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from datetime import datetime timestamp = 1435634284 my_datetime = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp) print("datetime:", my_datetime) print("timestamp:", timestamp) print("type(my_datetime): ", type(my_datetime)) |
If you run the code, you’ll see that the supposedly meaningless string of characters returned date and time.
The last line prints the type of the variable.
datetime: 2015-06-30 05:18:04 timestamp: 1435634284 type(my_datetime):
Convert the current timestamp
In the previous example, we used a ti+mestamp value that returned a date somewhere in 2015. If you want to get the current timestamp, you can get the current datetime and convert it to the timestamp, using the time() function.
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from datetime import datetime from time import time timestamp = time() my_datetime = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp) print("timestamp:", timestamp) print("datetime:", my_datetime) print("type(my_datetime): ", type(my_datetime)) |
This code returns the current timestamp represented by the float value.
timestamp: 1623686864.2045426 datetime: 2021-06-14 18:07:44.204543 type(timestamp):