On Python 2.5 here. I've searched and searched but I can't find any way to convert a datetime object that includes a timezone (tzinfo) to a unix timestamp. Folks on the net say to simply use the timetuple() method of the object and feed that to time.mktime(). But that just doesn't seem to work for me. At least if my understanding that the unix timestamp is always UTC.
I'm using the pytz module to create a datetime object of a certain timezone. For example: import pytz import datetime import time mountain = pytz.timezone("US/Mountain") # MST or MDT depending on date eastern = pytz.timezone("US/Eastern") # EST or EDT depending on date date1 = mountain.localize(datetime.datetime(2010, 3, 12, 9, 0)) date2 = eastern.localize(datetime.datetime(2010, 3, 12, 9, 0)) Now if I examine the two objects, I get: >>> print date1 2010-03-12 09:00:00-07:00 >>> print date2 2010-03-12 09:00:00-05:00 However the standard time.mktime(date2.timetuple()) thing gives me a timestamp, but it's in my local timezone and gives me the same answer for both dates! Can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list