date string to timestamp python code example

Example 1: convert to timestamp python

import datetime
date = '18/05/2020 - 18:05:12'

# convert string to datetimeformat
date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, "%d %m %Y - %H:%M:%S"")

# convert datetime to timestamp
date = datetime.datetime.timestamp(date)

Example 2: timestamp to date python

from datetime import datetime

timestamp = 1586507536367
dt_object = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)

Example 3: convert timestamp to date using python

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: python convert timestamp to datetime

from datetime import datetime

timestamp = 1545730073
dt_object = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)

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

Example 5: how to parse timestamp in python

"Jun 28 2018 at 7:40AM" -> "%b %d %Y at %I:%M%p"
"September 18, 2017, 22:19:55" -> "%B %d, %Y, %H:%M:%S"
"Sun,05/12/99,12:30PM" -> "%a,%d/%m/%y,%I:%M%p"
"Mon, 21 March, 2015" -> "%a, %d %B, %Y"
"2018-03-12T10:12:45Z" -> "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"