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In python im getting error converting unix timestamp to date and time. Os Error #22 [duplicate]

I have a timestamp in epoch time with nanoseconds - e.g. 1360287003083988472 nanoseconds since 1970-01-01.
The Python datetime objects and conversion methods only support up to millisecond precision.
Is there an easy way to convert this epoch time into human-readable time?

First, convert it to a datetime object with second precision (floored, not rounded):
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(1360287003083988472 // 1000000000)
>>> dt
datetime.datetime(2013, 2, 7, 17, 30, 3)
Then to make it human-readable, use the strftime() method on the object you get back:
>>> s = dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
>>> s
'2013-02-07 17:30:03'
Finally, add back in the nanosecond precision:
>>> s += '.' + str(int(1360287003083988472 % 1000000000)).zfill(9)
>>> s
'2013-02-07 17:30:03.083988472'

Actually, Python's datetime methods handle microsecond precision, not millisecond:
>>> nanos = 1360287003083988472
>>> secs = nanos / 1e9
>>> dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(secs)
>>> dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f')
'2013-02-07T17:30:03.083988'
But if you actually need nanoseconds, that still doesn't help. Your best bet is to write your own wrapper:
def format_my_nanos(nanos):
dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(nanos / 1e9)
return '{}{:03.0f}'.format(dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f'), nanos % 1e3)
This gives me:
'2013-02-07T17:30:03.083988472'
Of course you could have done the same thing even if Python didn't do sub-second precision at all…
def format_my_nanos(nanos):
dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(nanos / 1e9)
return '{}.{:09.0f}'.format(dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S'), nanos % 1e9)

datetime validation given time in unix format? [duplicate]

I am getting a response from the rest is an Epoch time format like
start_time = 1234566
end_time = 1234578
I want to convert that epoch seconds in MySQL format time so that I could store the differences in my MySQL database.
I tried:
>>> import time
>>> time.gmtime(123456)
time.struct_time(tm_year=1970, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=2, tm_hour=10, tm_min=17, tm_sec=36, tm_wday=4, tm_yday=2, tm_isdst=0)
The above result is not what I am expecting. I want it be like
2012-09-12 21:00:00
Please suggest how can I achieve this?
Also,
Why I am getting TypeError: a float is required for
>>> getbbb_class.end_time = 1347516459425
>>> mend = time.gmtime(getbbb_class.end_time).tm_hour
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
TypeError: a float is required

To convert your time value (float or int) to a formatted string, use:
import time
time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.localtime(1347517370))
For example:
import time
my_time = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.localtime(1347517370))
print(my_time)

You can also use datetime:
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1347517370).strftime('%c')
'2012-09-13 02:22:50'

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1347517370).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
'2012-09-13 14:22:50' # Local time
To get UTC:
>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1347517370).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
'2012-09-13 06:22:50'

This is what you need
In [1]: time.time()
Out[1]: 1347517739.44904
In [2]: time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.gmtime(time.time()))
Out[2]: '2012-09-13 06:31:43'
Please input a float instead of an int and that other TypeError should go away.
mend = time.gmtime(float(getbbb_class.end_time)).tm_hour

Try this:
>>> import time
>>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.gmtime(1347517119))
'2012-09-12 23:18:39'
Also in MySQL, you can FROM_UNIXTIME like:
INSERT INTO tblname VALUES (FROM_UNIXTIME(1347517119))
For your 2nd question, it is probably because getbbb_class.end_time is a string. You can convert it to numeric like: float(getbbb_class.end_time)

If you have epoch in milliseconds a possible solution is convert to seconds:
import time
time.ctime(milliseconds/1000)
For more time functions: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#functions

#This adds 10 seconds from now.
from datetime import datetime
import commands
date_string_command="date +%s"
utc = commands.getoutput(date_string_command)
a_date=datetime.fromtimestamp(float(int(utc))).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
print('a_date:'+a_date)
utc = int(utc)+10
b_date=datetime.fromtimestamp(float(utc)).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
print('b_date:'+b_date)
This is a little more wordy but it comes from date command in unix.

First a bit of info in epoch from man gmtime
The ctime(), gmtime() and localtime() functions all take an argument of data type time_t which represents calendar time. When inter-
preted as an absolute time value, it represents the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal
Time (UTC).
to understand how epoch should be.
>>> time.time()
1347517171.6514659
>>> time.gmtime(time.time())
(2012, 9, 13, 6, 19, 34, 3, 257, 0)
just ensure the arg you are passing to time.gmtime() is integer.

Sharing an answer to clearly distinguish UTC and local time conversions. Use import datetime at the top before using the below methods.
Convert to datetime of local machine's timezone
datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1347517370)
Convert to datetime of UTC timezone
datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1347517370)
For both the above methods, if you wish to return a formatted date string, use the following code block
datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1347517370).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1347517370).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

Why am I gaining an hour when converting to/from epoch timestamp? [duplicate]

I am dealing with dates in Python and I need to convert them to UTC timestamps to be used
inside Javascript. The following code does not work:
>>> d = datetime.date(2011,01,01)
>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(time.mktime(d.timetuple()))
datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 31, 23, 0)
Converting the date object first to datetime also does not help. I tried the example at this link from, but:
from pytz import utc, timezone
from datetime import datetime
from time import mktime
input_date = datetime(year=2011, month=1, day=15)
and now either:
mktime(utc.localize(input_date).utctimetuple())
or
mktime(timezone('US/Eastern').localize(input_date).utctimetuple())
does work.
So general question: how can I get a date converted to seconds since epoch according to UTC?

If d = date(2011, 1, 1) is in UTC:
>>> from datetime import datetime, date
>>> import calendar
>>> timestamp1 = calendar.timegm(d.timetuple())
>>> datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp1)
datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 0, 0)
If d is in local timezone:
>>> import time
>>> timestamp2 = time.mktime(d.timetuple()) # DO NOT USE IT WITH UTC DATE
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp2)
datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 0, 0)
timestamp1 and timestamp2 may differ if midnight in the local timezone is not the same time instance as midnight in UTC.
mktime() may return a wrong result if d corresponds to an ambiguous local time (e.g., during DST transition) or if d is a past(future) date when the utc offset might have been different and the C mktime() has no access to the tz database on the given platform. You could use pytz module (e.g., via tzlocal.get_localzone()) to get access to the tz database on all platforms. Also, utcfromtimestamp() may fail and mktime() may return non-POSIX timestamp if "right" timezone is used.
To convert datetime.date object that represents date in UTC without calendar.timegm():
DAY = 24*60*60 # POSIX day in seconds (exact value)
timestamp = (utc_date.toordinal() - date(1970, 1, 1).toordinal()) * DAY
timestamp = (utc_date - date(1970, 1, 1)).days * DAY
How can I get a date converted to seconds since epoch according to UTC?
To convert datetime.datetime (not datetime.date) object that already represents time in UTC to the corresponding POSIX timestamp (a float).
Python 3.3+
datetime.timestamp():
from datetime import timezone
timestamp = dt.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()
Note: It is necessary to supply timezone.utc explicitly otherwise .timestamp() assume that your naive datetime object is in local timezone.
Python 3 (< 3.3)
From the docs for datetime.utcfromtimestamp():
There is no method to obtain the timestamp from a datetime instance,
but POSIX timestamp corresponding to a datetime instance dt can be
easily calculated as follows. For a naive dt:
timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)) / timedelta(seconds=1)
And for an aware dt:
timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970,1,1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)) / timedelta(seconds=1)
Interesting read: Epoch time vs. time of day on the difference between What time is it? and How many seconds have elapsed?
See also: datetime needs an "epoch" method
Python 2
To adapt the above code for Python 2:
timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)).total_seconds()
where timedelta.total_seconds() is equivalent to (td.microseconds + (td.seconds + td.days * 24 * 3600) * 10**6) / 10**6 computed with true division enabled.
Example
from __future__ import division
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
def totimestamp(dt, epoch=datetime(1970,1,1)):
td = dt - epoch
# return td.total_seconds()
return (td.microseconds + (td.seconds + td.days * 86400) * 10**6) / 10**6
now = datetime.utcnow()
print now
print totimestamp(now)
Beware of floating-point issues.
Output
2012-01-08 15:34:10.022403
1326036850.02
How to convert an aware datetime object to POSIX timestamp
assert dt.tzinfo is not None and dt.utcoffset() is not None
timestamp = dt.timestamp() # Python 3.3+
On Python 3:
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
epoch = datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
timestamp = (dt - epoch) / timedelta(seconds=1)
integer_timestamp = (dt - epoch) // timedelta(seconds=1)
On Python 2:
# utc time = local time - utc offset
utc_naive = dt.replace(tzinfo=None) - dt.utcoffset()
timestamp = (utc_naive - datetime(1970, 1, 1)).total_seconds()

For unix systems only:
>>> import datetime
>>> d = datetime.date(2011, 1, 1)
>>> d.strftime("%s") # <-- THIS IS THE CODE YOU WANT
'1293832800'
Note 1: dizzyf observed that this applies localized timezones. Don't use in production.
Note 2: Jakub Narębski noted that this ignores timezone information even for offset-aware datetime (tested for Python 2.7).

Assumption 1: You're attempting to convert a date to a timestamp, however since a date covers a 24 hour period, there isn't a single timestamp that represents that date. I'll assume that you want to represent the timestamp of that date at midnight (00:00:00.000).
Assumption 2: The date you present is not associated with a particular time zone, however you want to determine the offset from a particular time zone (UTC). Without knowing the time zone the date is in, it isn't possible to calculate a timestamp for a specific time zone. I'll assume that you want to treat the date as if it is in the local system time zone.
First, you can convert the date instance into a tuple representing the various time components using the timetuple() member:
dtt = d.timetuple() # time.struct_time(tm_year=2011, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=5, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=-1)
You can then convert that into a timestamp using time.mktime:
ts = time.mktime(dtt) # 1293868800.0
You can verify this method by testing it with the epoch time itself (1970-01-01), in which case the function should return the timezone offset for the local time zone on that date:
d = datetime.date(1970,1,1)
dtt = d.timetuple() # time.struct_time(tm_year=1970, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=-1)
ts = time.mktime(dtt) # 28800.0
28800.0 is 8 hours, which would be correct for the Pacific time zone (where I'm at).

I defined my own two functions
utc_time2datetime(utc_time, tz=None)
datetime2utc_time(datetime)
here:
import time
import datetime
from pytz import timezone
import calendar
import pytz
def utc_time2datetime(utc_time, tz=None):
# convert utc time to utc datetime
utc_datetime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(utc_time)
# add time zone to utc datetime
if tz is None:
tz_datetime = utc_datetime.astimezone(timezone('utc'))
else:
tz_datetime = utc_datetime.astimezone(tz)
return tz_datetime
def datetime2utc_time(datetime):
# add utc time zone if no time zone is set
if datetime.tzinfo is None:
datetime = datetime.replace(tzinfo=timezone('utc'))
# convert to utc time zone from whatever time zone the datetime is set to
utc_datetime = datetime.astimezone(timezone('utc')).replace(tzinfo=None)
# create a time tuple from datetime
utc_timetuple = utc_datetime.timetuple()
# create a time element from the tuple an add microseconds
utc_time = calendar.timegm(utc_timetuple) + datetime.microsecond / 1E6
return utc_time

follow the python2.7 document, you have to use calendar.timegm() instead of time.mktime()
>>> d = datetime.date(2011,01,01)
>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(calendar.timegm(d.timetuple()))
datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 0, 0)

A complete time-string contains:
date
time
utcoffset [+HHMM or -HHMM]
For example:
1970-01-01 06:00:00 +0500 == 1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0000 == UNIX timestamp:3600
$ python3
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from calendar import timegm
>>> tm = '1970-01-01 06:00:00 +0500'
>>> fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z'
>>> timegm(datetime.strptime(tm, fmt).utctimetuple())
3600
Note:
UNIX timestamp is a floating point number expressed in seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
Edit:
$ python3
>>> from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta
>>> from calendar import timegm
>>> dt = datetime(1970, 1, 1, 6, 0)
>>> tz = timezone(timedelta(hours=5))
>>> timegm(dt.replace(tzinfo=tz).utctimetuple())
3600

Using the arrow package:
>>> import arrow
>>> arrow.get(2010, 12, 31).timestamp
1293753600
>>> time.gmtime(1293753600)
time.struct_time(tm_year=2010, tm_mon=12, tm_mday=31,
tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0,
tm_wday=4, tm_yday=365, tm_isdst=0)

the question is a little confused. timestamps are not UTC - they're a Unix thing. the date might be UTC? assuming it is, and if you're using Python 3.2+, simple-date makes this trivial:
>>> SimpleDate(date(2011,1,1), tz='utc').timestamp
1293840000.0
if you actually have the year, month and day you don't need to create the date:
>>> SimpleDate(2011,1,1, tz='utc').timestamp
1293840000.0
and if the date is in some other timezone (this matters because we're assuming midnight without an associated time):
>>> SimpleDate(date(2011,1,1), tz='America/New_York').timestamp
1293858000.0
[the idea behind simple-date is to collect all python's date and time stuff in one consistent class, so you can do any conversion. so, for example, it will also go the other way:
>>> SimpleDate(1293858000, tz='utc').date
datetime.date(2011, 1, 1)
]

Considering you have a datetime object called d,
use the following to get the timestamp in UTC:
d.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ")
And for the opposite direction, use following :
d = datetime.strptime("2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ")

This works for me, pass through a function.
from datetime import timezone, datetime, timedelta
import datetime
def utc_converter(dt):
dt = datetime.datetime.now(timezone.utc)
utc_time = dt.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
utc_timestamp = utc_time.timestamp()
return utc_timestamp
# create start and end timestamps
_now = datetime.datetime.now()
str_start = str(utc_converter(_now))
_end = _now + timedelta(seconds=10)
str_end = str(utc_converter(_end))

i'm impressed of the deep discussion.
my 2 cents:
from datetime import datetime
import time
the timestamp in utc is:
timestamp = \
(datetime.utcnow() - datetime(1970,1,1)).total_seconds()
or,
timestamp = time.time()
if now results from datetime.now(), in the same DST
utcoffset = (datetime.now() - datetime.utcnow()).total_seconds()
timestamp = \
(now - datetime(1970,1,1)).total_seconds() - utcoffset

Converting datetime.date to UTC timestamp in Python

I am dealing with dates in Python and I need to convert them to UTC timestamps to be used
inside Javascript. The following code does not work:
>>> d = datetime.date(2011,01,01)
>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(time.mktime(d.timetuple()))
datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 31, 23, 0)
Converting the date object first to datetime also does not help. I tried the example at this link from, but:
from pytz import utc, timezone
from datetime import datetime
from time import mktime
input_date = datetime(year=2011, month=1, day=15)
and now either:
mktime(utc.localize(input_date).utctimetuple())
or
mktime(timezone('US/Eastern').localize(input_date).utctimetuple())
does work.
So general question: how can I get a date converted to seconds since epoch according to UTC?

If d = date(2011, 1, 1) is in UTC:
>>> from datetime import datetime, date
>>> import calendar
>>> timestamp1 = calendar.timegm(d.timetuple())
>>> datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp1)
datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 0, 0)
If d is in local timezone:
>>> import time
>>> timestamp2 = time.mktime(d.timetuple()) # DO NOT USE IT WITH UTC DATE
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp2)
datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 0, 0)
timestamp1 and timestamp2 may differ if midnight in the local timezone is not the same time instance as midnight in UTC.
mktime() may return a wrong result if d corresponds to an ambiguous local time (e.g., during DST transition) or if d is a past(future) date when the utc offset might have been different and the C mktime() has no access to the tz database on the given platform. You could use pytz module (e.g., via tzlocal.get_localzone()) to get access to the tz database on all platforms. Also, utcfromtimestamp() may fail and mktime() may return non-POSIX timestamp if "right" timezone is used.
To convert datetime.date object that represents date in UTC without calendar.timegm():
DAY = 24*60*60 # POSIX day in seconds (exact value)
timestamp = (utc_date.toordinal() - date(1970, 1, 1).toordinal()) * DAY
timestamp = (utc_date - date(1970, 1, 1)).days * DAY
How can I get a date converted to seconds since epoch according to UTC?
To convert datetime.datetime (not datetime.date) object that already represents time in UTC to the corresponding POSIX timestamp (a float).
Python 3.3+
datetime.timestamp():
from datetime import timezone
timestamp = dt.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()
Note: It is necessary to supply timezone.utc explicitly otherwise .timestamp() assume that your naive datetime object is in local timezone.
Python 3 (< 3.3)
From the docs for datetime.utcfromtimestamp():
There is no method to obtain the timestamp from a datetime instance,
but POSIX timestamp corresponding to a datetime instance dt can be
easily calculated as follows. For a naive dt:
timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)) / timedelta(seconds=1)
And for an aware dt:
timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970,1,1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)) / timedelta(seconds=1)
Interesting read: Epoch time vs. time of day on the difference between What time is it? and How many seconds have elapsed?
See also: datetime needs an "epoch" method
Python 2
To adapt the above code for Python 2:
timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)).total_seconds()
where timedelta.total_seconds() is equivalent to (td.microseconds + (td.seconds + td.days * 24 * 3600) * 10**6) / 10**6 computed with true division enabled.
Example
from __future__ import division
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
def totimestamp(dt, epoch=datetime(1970,1,1)):
td = dt - epoch
# return td.total_seconds()
return (td.microseconds + (td.seconds + td.days * 86400) * 10**6) / 10**6
now = datetime.utcnow()
print now
print totimestamp(now)
Beware of floating-point issues.
Output
2012-01-08 15:34:10.022403
1326036850.02
How to convert an aware datetime object to POSIX timestamp
assert dt.tzinfo is not None and dt.utcoffset() is not None
timestamp = dt.timestamp() # Python 3.3+
On Python 3:
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
epoch = datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
timestamp = (dt - epoch) / timedelta(seconds=1)
integer_timestamp = (dt - epoch) // timedelta(seconds=1)
On Python 2:
# utc time = local time - utc offset
utc_naive = dt.replace(tzinfo=None) - dt.utcoffset()
timestamp = (utc_naive - datetime(1970, 1, 1)).total_seconds()

For unix systems only:
>>> import datetime
>>> d = datetime.date(2011, 1, 1)
>>> d.strftime("%s") # <-- THIS IS THE CODE YOU WANT
'1293832800'
Note 1: dizzyf observed that this applies localized timezones. Don't use in production.
Note 2: Jakub Narębski noted that this ignores timezone information even for offset-aware datetime (tested for Python 2.7).

Assumption 1: You're attempting to convert a date to a timestamp, however since a date covers a 24 hour period, there isn't a single timestamp that represents that date. I'll assume that you want to represent the timestamp of that date at midnight (00:00:00.000).
Assumption 2: The date you present is not associated with a particular time zone, however you want to determine the offset from a particular time zone (UTC). Without knowing the time zone the date is in, it isn't possible to calculate a timestamp for a specific time zone. I'll assume that you want to treat the date as if it is in the local system time zone.
First, you can convert the date instance into a tuple representing the various time components using the timetuple() member:
dtt = d.timetuple() # time.struct_time(tm_year=2011, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=5, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=-1)
You can then convert that into a timestamp using time.mktime:
ts = time.mktime(dtt) # 1293868800.0
You can verify this method by testing it with the epoch time itself (1970-01-01), in which case the function should return the timezone offset for the local time zone on that date:
d = datetime.date(1970,1,1)
dtt = d.timetuple() # time.struct_time(tm_year=1970, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=-1)
ts = time.mktime(dtt) # 28800.0
28800.0 is 8 hours, which would be correct for the Pacific time zone (where I'm at).

I defined my own two functions
utc_time2datetime(utc_time, tz=None)
datetime2utc_time(datetime)
here:
import time
import datetime
from pytz import timezone
import calendar
import pytz
def utc_time2datetime(utc_time, tz=None):
# convert utc time to utc datetime
utc_datetime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(utc_time)
# add time zone to utc datetime
if tz is None:
tz_datetime = utc_datetime.astimezone(timezone('utc'))
else:
tz_datetime = utc_datetime.astimezone(tz)
return tz_datetime
def datetime2utc_time(datetime):
# add utc time zone if no time zone is set
if datetime.tzinfo is None:
datetime = datetime.replace(tzinfo=timezone('utc'))
# convert to utc time zone from whatever time zone the datetime is set to
utc_datetime = datetime.astimezone(timezone('utc')).replace(tzinfo=None)
# create a time tuple from datetime
utc_timetuple = utc_datetime.timetuple()
# create a time element from the tuple an add microseconds
utc_time = calendar.timegm(utc_timetuple) + datetime.microsecond / 1E6
return utc_time

follow the python2.7 document, you have to use calendar.timegm() instead of time.mktime()
>>> d = datetime.date(2011,01,01)
>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(calendar.timegm(d.timetuple()))
datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 0, 0)

A complete time-string contains:
date
time
utcoffset [+HHMM or -HHMM]
For example:
1970-01-01 06:00:00 +0500 == 1970-01-01 01:00:00 +0000 == UNIX timestamp:3600
$ python3
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from calendar import timegm
>>> tm = '1970-01-01 06:00:00 +0500'
>>> fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z'
>>> timegm(datetime.strptime(tm, fmt).utctimetuple())
3600
Note:
UNIX timestamp is a floating point number expressed in seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
Edit:
$ python3
>>> from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta
>>> from calendar import timegm
>>> dt = datetime(1970, 1, 1, 6, 0)
>>> tz = timezone(timedelta(hours=5))
>>> timegm(dt.replace(tzinfo=tz).utctimetuple())
3600

Using the arrow package:
>>> import arrow
>>> arrow.get(2010, 12, 31).timestamp
1293753600
>>> time.gmtime(1293753600)
time.struct_time(tm_year=2010, tm_mon=12, tm_mday=31,
tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0,
tm_wday=4, tm_yday=365, tm_isdst=0)

the question is a little confused. timestamps are not UTC - they're a Unix thing. the date might be UTC? assuming it is, and if you're using Python 3.2+, simple-date makes this trivial:
>>> SimpleDate(date(2011,1,1), tz='utc').timestamp
1293840000.0
if you actually have the year, month and day you don't need to create the date:
>>> SimpleDate(2011,1,1, tz='utc').timestamp
1293840000.0
and if the date is in some other timezone (this matters because we're assuming midnight without an associated time):
>>> SimpleDate(date(2011,1,1), tz='America/New_York').timestamp
1293858000.0
[the idea behind simple-date is to collect all python's date and time stuff in one consistent class, so you can do any conversion. so, for example, it will also go the other way:
>>> SimpleDate(1293858000, tz='utc').date
datetime.date(2011, 1, 1)
]

Considering you have a datetime object called d,
use the following to get the timestamp in UTC:
d.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ")
And for the opposite direction, use following :
d = datetime.strptime("2008-09-03T20:56:35.450686Z", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ")

This works for me, pass through a function.
from datetime import timezone, datetime, timedelta
import datetime
def utc_converter(dt):
dt = datetime.datetime.now(timezone.utc)
utc_time = dt.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
utc_timestamp = utc_time.timestamp()
return utc_timestamp
# create start and end timestamps
_now = datetime.datetime.now()
str_start = str(utc_converter(_now))
_end = _now + timedelta(seconds=10)
str_end = str(utc_converter(_end))

i'm impressed of the deep discussion.
my 2 cents:
from datetime import datetime
import time
the timestamp in utc is:
timestamp = \
(datetime.utcnow() - datetime(1970,1,1)).total_seconds()
or,
timestamp = time.time()
if now results from datetime.now(), in the same DST
utcoffset = (datetime.now() - datetime.utcnow()).total_seconds()
timestamp = \
(now - datetime(1970,1,1)).total_seconds() - utcoffset

Conversion of unix epoch time to windows epoch time in python

Quick question:
Is there a pythonic (whether in the standard libraries or not) way to convert unix 32-bit epoch time to windows 64-bit epoch time and back again?

You can convert a POSIX timestamp to a datetime with
>>> tstamp = 1325178061 # right about now
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(tstamp)
datetime.datetime(2011, 12, 29, 18, 1, 1)
The fromtimestamp named constructor accepts POSIX timestamps on all platforms (!).
Conversion to a Windows timestamp would be a matter of subtracting the Windows epoch, which Wikipedia says is January 1, 1601, and converting the resulting timedelta to a number of seconds:
>>> W_EPOCH = datetime(1601, 1, 1)
>>> (datetime.fromtimestamp(tstamp) - W_EPOCH).total_seconds()
12969655261.0
Now you've got a float that you convert to int and store as a 64-bit quantity in whichever way you like.

To convert from a Windows EPOCH timestamp to a datetime object (but not the other way around); here's a solution I came up with:
from datetime import datetime, timezone
def convert_from(windows_timestamp: int) -> datetime:
unix_epoch = datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
windows_epoch = datetime(1601, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
epoch_delta = unix_epoch - windows_epoch
windows_timestamp_in_seconds = windows_timestamp / 10_000_000
unix_timestamp = windows_timestamp_in_seconds - epoch_delta.total_seconds()
return datetime.utcfromtimestamp(unix_timestamp)
This allows you to pass in the Windows timestamp as is and it will spit out a valid Python datetime object.
NOTE: This is Python 3 specific.