how do you convert user input datetime to epoch time in python

Question

I need to convert user input datetime to epoch time. This what what I have:

from datetime import datetime
 
from_date = str(input('Enter date(yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm): '))
to_date = str(input('Enter date(yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm): '))
 
print(from_date)
2022-03-03 06:00:00
print(to_date)
2022-03-03 06:00:00

epoch = datetime.datetime(from_date).strftime('%s')
print(epoch)

Answer 1

Check date format codes and convert it to a datetime object, then simply use .timestamp().

from datetime import datetime
from_date = "2022-03-03 06:00:00"
epoch = datetime.strptime(from_date, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").timestamp()

Answer 2

First, convert your input to a datetime using datetime.strptime.

Then use dt.timestamp() to convert to EPOCH:

from datetime import datetime
 
from_date = str(input('Enter date(yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm): '))

dt = datetime.strptime(from_date, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
epoch = dt.timestamp() 

print(epoch)
# 1646287200.0

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