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Converting ISO 8601 date time to seconds in Python

I am trying to add two times together. The ISO 8601 time stamp is '1984-06-02T19:05:00.000Z', and I would like to convert it to seconds. I tried using the Python module iso8601, but it is only a parser.

Any suggestions?

Solution

  • If you want to get the seconds since epoch, you can use python-dateutil to convert it to a datetime object and then convert it so seconds using the strftime method. Like so:

    >>> import dateutil.parser as dp
>>> t = '1984-06-02T19:05:00.000Z'
>>> parsed_t = dp.parse(t)
>>> t_in_seconds = parsed_t.timestamp()
>>> t_in_seconds
'455051100'

    So you were halfway there :)