datetime to unix timestamp python code example

Example 1: unix to date python

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> ts = int("1284101485")

# if you encounter a "year is out of range" error the timestamp
# may be in milliseconds, try `ts /= 1000` in that case
>>> print(datetime.utcfromtimestamp(ts).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
#'%Y' will be replaced by the year '%m' by the month '%d; by the day and so on 
#You move these how you want in the string, other characters will be ignored!
... '2010-09-10 06:51:25'

Example 2: how to get unix timestamp in python

import time
time.time() #returns the unix timestamp

Example 3: get datetime from unix timestamp python3

from datetime import datetime

timestamp = 1545730073
dt_object = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)

print("dt_object =", dt_object)
print("type(dt_object) =", type(dt_object))

Example 4: pandas datetime to unix timestamp

dates = pd.to_datetime(['2019-01-15 13:30:00'])
(dates - pd.Timestamp("1970-01-01")) // pd.Timedelta('1s')  
# Int64Index([1547559000], dtype='int64')