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datetime.timestamp()

Converts a local datetime to a Unix timestamp.

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Syntax

datetime.timestamp()

Example

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from datetime import datetime, timezone
print(int(datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp()))

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