Python Create unix timestamp five minutes in the future

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I have to create an  Expires  value 5 minutes in the future  but I have to supply it in UNIX Timestamp format   I have this so far  but it seems like a hack   def expires           return a UNIX style timestamp representing 5 minutes from now        epoch   datetime datetime 1970  1  1      seconds in a day   60   60   24     five minutes   datetime timedelta seconds 5 60      five minutes from now   datetime datetime now     five minutes     since epoch   five minutes from now - epoch     return since epoch days   seconds in a day   since epoch seconds   Is there a module or function that does the timestamp conversion for me

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Note that solutions with timedelta total seconds   work on python-2 7   Use calendar timegm future utctimetuple    for lower versions of Python

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Just found this  and its even shorter   import time def expires           return a UNIX style timestamp representing 5 minutes from now        return int time time   300

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The following is based on the answers above  plus a correction for the milliseconds  and emulates datetime timestamp   for Python 3 before 3 3 when timezones are used   def datetime timestamp datetime               Equivalent to datetime timestamp   for pre-3 3             try          return datetime timestamp       except AttributeError          utc datetime   datetime astimezone utc          return timegm utc datetime timetuple      utc datetime microsecond   1e6   To strictly answer the question as asked  you d want   datetime timestamp my datetime    5   60   datetime timestamp is part of simple-date   But if you were using that package you d probably type   SimpleDate my datetime  timestamp   5   60   which handles many more formats   types for my datetime

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You can use datetime strftime to get the time in Epoch form  using the  s format string   def expires        future   datetime datetime now     datetime timedelta seconds 5 60      return int future strftime   s      Note      This only works under linux  and this method doesn t work with timezones

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The key is to ensure all the dates you are using are in the utc timezone before you start converting  See http   pytz sourceforge net  to learn how to do that properly  By normalizing to utc  you eliminate the ambiguity of daylight savings transitions  Then you can safely use timedelta to calculate distance from the unix epoch  and then convert to seconds or milliseconds   Note that the resulting unix timestamp is itself in the UTC timezone  If you wish to see the timestamp in a localized timezone  you will need to make another conversion   Also note that this will only work for dates after 1970      import datetime    import pytz     UNIX EPOCH   datetime datetime 1970  1  1  0  0  tzinfo   pytz utc     def EPOCH utc datetime         delta   utc datetime - UNIX EPOCH       seconds   delta total seconds         ms   seconds   1000       return ms

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def expiration time        import datetime calendar     timestamp   calendar timegm datetime datetime now   timetuple        returnValue   datetime timedelta minutes 5  total seconds     timestamp     return returnValue

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This is what you need   import time import datetime n   datetime datetime now   unix time   time mktime n timetuple

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Now in Python    3 3 you can just call the timestamp   method to get the timestamp as a float   import datetime current time   datetime datetime now datetime timezone utc  unix timestamp   current time timestamp     works if Python  gt   3 3  unix timestamp plus 5 min   unix timestamp    5   60     5 min   60 seconds

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def in unix input     start   datetime datetime year 1970 month 1 day 1    diff   input - start   return diff total seconds

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Another way is to use calendar timegm   future   datetime datetime utcnow     datetime timedelta minutes 5  return calendar timegm future timetuple      It s also more portable than  s flag to strftime  which doesn t work on Windows

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Here s a less broken datetime-based solution to convert from datetime object to posix timestamp   future   datetime datetime utcnow     datetime timedelta minutes 5  return  future - datetime datetime 1970  1  1   total seconds     See more details at Converting datetime date to UTC timestamp in Python

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