What is the easiest way to get current GMT time in Unix timestamp format

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Python provides different packages  datetime  time  calendar  as can be seen here in order to deal with time  I made a big mistake by using the following to get current GMT time time mktime datetime datetime utcnow   timetuple     What is a simple way to get current GMT time in Unix timestamp

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Or just simply using the datetime standard module

In [2]: from datetime import timezone, datetime
   ...: int(datetime.now(tz=timezone.utc).timestamp() * 1000)
   ...: 
Out[2]: 1514901741720

You can truncate or multiply depending on the resolution you want. This example is outputting millis.

If you want a proper Unix timestamp (in seconds) remove the * 1000

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Does this help   from datetime import datetime import calendar  d   datetime utcnow   unixtime   calendar timegm d utctimetuple    print unixtime   How to convert Python UTC datetime object to UNIX timestamp

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I like this method   import datetime  time  dts   datetime datetime utcnow   epochtime   round time mktime dts timetuple      dts microsecond 1e6    The other methods posted here are either not guaranteed to give you UTC on all platforms or only report whole seconds  If you want full resolution  this works  to the micro-second

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python2 and python3  it is good to use time module  import time int time time         1573708436   you can also use datetime module  but when you use strftime   s    but strftime convert time to your local time   python2  from datetime import datetime datetime utcnow   strftime   s     python3  from datetime import datetime datetime utcnow   timestamp

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I would use time time   to get a timestamp in seconds since the epoch   import time  time time     Output   1369550494 884832   For the standard CPython implementation on most platforms this will return a UTC value

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import time  int time time       Output   1521462189

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from datetime import datetime as dt dt utcnow   strftime   s     Output   1544524990

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Python 3 seconds with microsecond decimal resolution  from datetime import datetime print datetime now   timestamp     Python 3 integer seconds  print int datetime now   timestamp      WARNING on datetime utcnow   timestamp    datetime utcnow   is a non-timezone aware object  See reference  https   docs python org 3 library datetime html aware-and-naive-objects For something like 1am UTC  from datetime import timezone print datetime 1970 1 1 1 0 tzinfo timezone utc  timestamp     or print datetime fromisoformat  1970-01-01T01 00 00 00 00   timestamp     if you remove the tzinfo timezone utc or  00 00  you ll get results dependent on your current local time   Ex  1am on Jan 1st 1970 in your current timezone - which could be legitimate - for example  if you want the timestamp of the instant when you were born  you should use the timezone you were born in   However  the timestamp from datetime utcnow   timestamp   is neither the current instant in local time nor UTC   For example  I m in GMT-7 00 right now  and datetime utcnow   timestamp   gives a timestamp from 7 hours in the future

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At least in python3  this works    gt  gt  gt  datetime strftime datetime utcnow      s    1587503279

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First Example  from datetime import datetime  timezone     timstamp1  int datetime now tz timezone utc  timestamp     1000  print timstamp1       Output  1572878043380    second example  import time timstamp2  int time time    print timstamp2       Output  1572878043    Here  we can see the first example gives more accurate time than second one  Here I am using the first one

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