UTC equivalent of time.mktime() ?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Graham Ashton wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 17:11, Mark McEahern wrote:
> > Why not just use the mxDateTime library and just do something like this:
> >
> >       mx.DateTime.utc().ticks()
> 
> I appreciate that I could (and thanks for the suggestion), but does this
> really mean that via the standard library there is no easy way to
> convert "1 Jan 1970" to 0 (i.e. string to seconds since epoch)?
> 
> Perhaps I should inspect the mxDateTime code...

Depends on whether your C lib supports leap seconds or not.

See the mxDateTime code for details: 
mxDateTime_AsGMTTicksWithOffset()

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