django Datefield to Unix timestamp

Question

In a model I have a such field: mydate = models.DateField()

now a javascript graph function requires unix timestamp such as \"1196550000000\", how can I return the u

Answer 1

Another option:

import time
from django.utils import timezone

naive_date = timezone.make_naive(mydate, timezone.get_current_timezone())
print int(time.mktime(naive_date.timetuple()))