Question

Is it possible to create a UNIX timestamp in Python (number of seconds) with only day, month and year from a date object? I’m essentially looking for what the timestamp would be at midnight (hour, minute and second would be 0).

Thanks!

Answer 1

>>> import time
>>> import datetime
>>> dt = datetime.datetime.strptime('2012-02-09', '%Y-%m-%d')
>>> time.mktime(dt.timetuple())
1328774400.0

–OR–

>>> dt = datetime.datetime(year=2012, month=2, day=9)
>>> time.mktime(dt.timetuple())
1328774400.0

For other Time types like Hour and Second go here:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior