convert from date string to epoch

[Stefan Antonelli]

Hi,

i have to convert several timestamps. The given format, eg "-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.

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Re: convert from date string to epoch

[Stefan Antonelli]

Amit Khemka  gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Check out timegm function in calendar module. The following function
> converts "mm/dd/" 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))


Thanks for your suggestion... For me this was the Solutions:

# convert '-mm-dd hh:mm:ss' to epoch
def toEpoch(timestamp):
  split = str(timestamp).split(' ')
  tdate = map(int,split[0].split('-'))
  ttime = map(int,split[1].split(':'))
  tcode = (tdate[0], tdate[1], tdate[2], ttime[0], ttime[1], ttime[2])
  epoch = timegm(tcode)
  return (int(epoch))

Stefan.

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