convert from date string to epoch

[Amit Khemka]

On 12/16/06, Stefan Antonelli <stefan.antonelli at operun.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have to convert several timestamps. The given format, eg "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss"
> has to be converted to an epoch string. Is there any proper way to do this?
>
> If not, i have to split the given string and resolve this by a calculation?
>
> Thanks for help.
>
> Stefan.

Check out timegm function in calendar module. The following function
converts "mm/dd/yyyy" formats into epoch value, you can hack it for
your date formats.

def convertToEpoch(date):
         tup = map(int,date.split('/'))
         l = (tup[2], tup[0], tup[1], 0, 0, 0)
         epochs = calendar.timegm(l)
         return (int(epochs))

HTH,
amit.

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