How can I convert a datetime object to milliseconds since epoch (unix time) in Python?

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I have a Python datetime object that I want to convert to unix time, or seconds/milliseconds since the 1970 epoch.

How do I do this?

epoch datetime python
14 Answers

Here is a function I made based on the answer above

def getDateToEpoch(myDateTime):
    res = (datetime.datetime(myDateTime.year,myDateTime.month,myDateTime.day,myDateTime.hour,myDateTime.minute,myDateTime.second) - datetime.datetime(1970,1,1)).total_seconds()
    return res

You can wrap the returned value like this : str(int(res)) To return it without a decimal value to be used as string or just int (without the str)

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A lot of these answers don't work for python 2 or don't preserve the milliseconds from the datetime. This works for me

def datetime_to_ms_epoch(dt):
    microseconds = time.mktime(dt.timetuple()) * 1000000 + dt.microsecond
    return int(round(microseconds / float(1000)))
user_48857840

This other solution for covert datetime to unixtimestampmillis.

private static readonly DateTime UnixEpoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);

    public static long GetCurrentUnixTimestampMillis()
    {
        DateTime localDateTime, univDateTime;
        localDateTime = DateTime.Now;          
        univDateTime = localDateTime.ToUniversalTime();
        return (long)(univDateTime - UnixEpoch).TotalMilliseconds;
    }
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