UTC equivalent of time.mktime() ?

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Graham Ashton <gashton at cmedltd.com>:
| 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)?

I have not been following, so pardon me if this has already been
suggested, but on a platform where you have 2.0 or later and strptime,
this might do that:

  lt = time.mktime(time.strptime(sys.argv[1], '%d %b %Y'))
  utoffset = time.mktime(time.gmtime(lt)) - lt
  print lt - utoffset

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