Question

I need to generate a timestamp in NTP format in Python. Specifically, I need to calculate the number of seconds since 1st January 1900, as a 32-bit number. (NTP timestamps are actually 64 bits, with the other 32 bits representing fractions of seconds – I’m not worried about this part).

How should I go about doing this?

Answer 1

import datetime
diff = datetime.datetime.utcnow() - datetime.datetime(1900, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)
timestamp = diff.days*24*60*60+diff.seconds
timestamp
# returns
# 3531049334

(note that timedelta.total_seconds() is not available in python3)