How to convert tomorrows (at specific time) date to a timestamp

Question

How can i actually create a timestamp for the next 6 o\'clock, whether that\'s today or tomorrow?

I tried something with datetime.datetime.today() and replace the da

Answer 1

To generate a timestamp for tomorrow at 6 AM, you can use something like the following. This creates a datetime object representing the current time, checks to see if the current hour is < 6 o'clock or not, creates a datetime object for the next 6 o'clock (including adding incrementing the day if necessary), and finally converts the datetime object into a timestamp

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import time

# Get today's datetime
dtnow = datetime.now()

# Create datetime variable for 6 AM
dt6 = None

# If today's hour is < 6 AM
if dtnow.hour < 6:

    # Create date object for today's year, month, day at 6 AM
    dt6 = datetime(dtnow.year, dtnow.month, dtnow.day, 6, 0, 0, 0)

# If today is past 6 AM, increment date by 1 day
else:

    # Get 1 day duration to add
    day = timedelta(days=1)

    # Generate tomorrow's datetime
    tomorrow = dtnow + day

    # Create new datetime object using tomorrow's year, month, day at 6 AM
    dt6 = datetime(tomorrow.year, tomorrow.month, tomorrow.day, 6, 0, 0, 0)

# Create timestamp from datetime object
timestamp = time.mktime(dt6.timetuple())

print(timestamp)