How to specify time zone (UTC) when converting to Unix time? (Python)

Question

I have a utc timestamp in the IS8601 format and am trying to convert it to unix time. This is my console session:

In [9]: mydate
Out[9]: \'2009-07-17T01:21:0         


        

Answer 1

naive_utc_dt = parseddate.replace(tzinfo=None)
timestamp = (naive_utc_dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)).total_seconds()
# -> 1247793660.0

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And back:

utc_dt = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp)
# -> datetime.datetime(2009, 7, 17, 1, 21)