Time-date as an integer

[Josef Meile]

Charles Hixson wrote:
> [...]
> This is the best that I've been able to come up with in getting a 
> date-time as an integer.  It feels like one of the time or date 
> libraries should have a better solution, but if so, I haven't found it.  
> Can anyone suggest a better approach?
What's about epoch seconds? Here is a page where this approach is explained:

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_python/datesandtimes.html

Regards,
Josef