adding any unix timestamp in discord.py

Question

i want to add unix timestamp in the giveaway time like in this image

here is the code:

@client.command()
async def giveaway(ctx, days:int, hours:int, minutes:int, seconds:int, prize:str):
  time = days + hours + minutes + seconds
  embed = discord.Embed(title=prize, description=f"time: <t:{time}:R>")
  await ctx.send(embed=embed, delete_after=time)
  endembed = discord.Embed(title=f"you have won {prize}", description="The time has ended")
  await ctx.send(embed=endembed)

when I run the code it shows me this image

Answer 1

You can do this by using the mktime function in the time module.

import datetime
import time

def convert_to_unix_time(date: datetime.datetime, days: int, hours: int, minutes: int, seconds: int) -> str:
    # Get the end date
    end_date = date + datetime.timedelta(days=days, hours=hours, minutes=minutes, seconds=seconds)

    # Get a tuple of the date attributes
    date_tuple = (end_date.year, end_date.month, end_date.day, end_date.hour, end_date.minute, end_date.second)

    # Convert to unix time
    return f'<t:{int(time.mktime(datetime.datetime(*date_tuple).timetuple()))}:R>'

The returned value should like somewhat like this: <t:1655392367:R>

Pasting the returned string will give a dynamic display as shown in the image you have provided.

The mktime function returns a float value. For the datetime to be displayed dynamically, the value in between must be numbers only.

The R in the end of the returned string stands for relative. The dynamic display will be relative to current time. The other formats are t, T, d, D, f and F.