Get UTC timestamp in Python



Get UTC timestamp in Python

Datetime module supplies classes to work with date and time. These classes provide a number of functions to deal with dates, times and time intervals. Date and datetime are an object in Python, so when you manipulate them, you are actually manipulating objects and not string or timestamps.

 

Example:

 

# Python program to demonstrate
#  datetime module
 
import datetime
 
 
dt = datetime.date(2020, 1, 26)
# prints the date as date
# object
print(dt)
 
# prints the current date
print(datetime.date.today())
 
# prints the date and time
dt = datetime.datetime(1999, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 342380
print(dt)
  
# prints the current date 
# and time
print(datetime.datetime.now())

Output:

2020-01-26
2020-02-04
1999-12-12 12:12:12.342380
2020-02-04 07:46:29.315237

Getting the UTC timestamp

Use the datetime.datetime.now() to get the current date and time. Then use tzinfo class to convert our datetime to UTC. Lastly, use the timestamp() to convert the datetime object, in UTC, to get the UTC timestamp.

Example:

from datetime import timezone
import datetime
 
 
# Getting the current date
# and time
dt = datetime.datetime.now(timezone.utc)
 
utc_time = dt.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
utc_timestamp = utc_time.timestamp()
 
print(utc_timestamp)

Output:

1615975803.787904

Last Updated on November 13, 2021 by admin

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