Issue #2736: Added datetime.timestamp() method.
diff --git a/Lib/datetime.py b/Lib/datetime.py
index 59f3c68..5d8d9b3 100644
--- a/Lib/datetime.py
+++ b/Lib/datetime.py
@@ -1434,6 +1434,15 @@
self.hour, self.minute, self.second,
dst)
+ def timestamp(self):
+ "Return POSIX timestamp as float"
+ if self._tzinfo is None:
+ return _time.mktime((self.year, self.month, self.day,
+ self.hour, self.minute, self.second,
+ -1, -1, -1)) + self.microsecond / 1e6
+ else:
+ return (self - _EPOCH).total_seconds()
+
def utctimetuple(self):
"Return UTC time tuple compatible with time.gmtime()."
offset = self.utcoffset()
@@ -1889,7 +1898,7 @@
timezone.utc = timezone._create(timedelta(0))
timezone.min = timezone._create(timezone._minoffset)
timezone.max = timezone._create(timezone._maxoffset)
-
+_EPOCH = datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
"""
Some time zone algebra. For a datetime x, let
x.n = x stripped of its timezone -- its naive time.