How to convert datetime.date to UTC timestamp in Python

Question

I need to convert date to UTC timestamps to be used inside Javascript.

The following code does not work:

>>> d = datetime.date(2018,10,31)

>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(time.mktime(d.timetuple()))

datetime.datetime(2018, 10, 31, 23, 0)

Converting the date object first to datetime also does not help. I tried the example at this link from, but:

from pytz import utc, timezone

from datetime import datetime

from time import mktime

input_date = datetime(year=2011, month=1, day=15)

and now either:

mktime(utc.localize(input_date).utctimetuple())

or

mktime(timezone('US/Eastern').localize(input_date).utctimetuple())

does work.

Answer 1

You cannot directly get a timestamp but you can get a timezone aware timestamp like this:

timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970,1,1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)) / timedelta(seconds=1)

If you want to get a deeper understanding of python you can watch this youtube video: