Github3.py 1.3.0 Get timestamp for commit

I looked through the documentation and even the source code and I can't seem to figure out how to get the timestamp of a commit using the github3.py library. I'm, pretty sure it's there because, well, it's a timestamp.

So if you want to get a timestamp that's related to a git commit stored in GitHub, then you'll need to have a few things:

• The Repository that contains the commit
• The SHA
• What you define as timestamp (is that the datetime it was authored, or datetime it was committed - note these are not always guaranteed to be equal)

So if you have the repository you'd retrieve it like so:

repo = github3.repository('username', 'repositoryname')

With that, you should be able to get the git_commit data like so:

commit = repo.git_commit('sha1-of-git-commit-i-care-about')

Your commit value is an instance of a github3.git.Commit object which has author and committer attributes which are dictionaries that look like

  "author": {
    "date": "2014-11-07T22:01:45Z",
    "name": "Scott Chacon",
    "email": "schacon@gmail.com"
  },
  "committer": {
    "date": "2014-11-07T22:01:45Z",
    "name": "Scott Chacon",
    "email": "schacon@gmail.com"
  },

So you can wrap this up with:

commit.author["date"]

I suggest using a utility like dateutil to parse these timestamps.