Velko Ivanov <viva...@ivanov-nest.com> added the comment: On 04/05/2011 18:22, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > """ > The datetime module intended to be an island of relative sanity. > ....... """ - Tim Peters
Refusing to cooperate with the rest of the world is not sane by my books. On 04/05/2011 21:06, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > Converting datetime values to float is easy. If your dt is a naive instance > representing UTC time: > > timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)) / timedelta(seconds=1) > > If your dt is an aware instance: > > timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)) / > timedelta(seconds=1) Please add these lines to the datetime module's documentation. In some central, well lit place. I believe that if nothing else, the whole discussion should have proved to you that there are many people looking for them. OTOH a sinceepoch(epoch=datetime(1970,1,1)) method of the datetime class should be equally easy. Would be especially useful if few of the more frequently used EPOCHs are provided as constants. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2736> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
