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django Datefield to Unix timestamp

In a model I have a such field: mydate = models.DateField()

now a javascript graph function requires unix timestamp such as "1196550000000", how can I return the unix timestamp of my mydate input.

Thanks

Solution

  • edit: please check the second answer, it has a much better solution

    In python code, you can do this to convert a date or datetime to the Unix Epoch

    import time
epoch = int(time.mktime(mydate.timetuple())*1000)

    This doesn't work in a Django template though, so you need a custom filter, e.g:

    import time

from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.filter
def epoch(value):
    try:
        return int(time.mktime(value.timetuple())*1000)
    except AttributeError:
        return ''