from date/time string to seconds since epoch

[Peter Kleiweg]

wittempj at hotmail.com schreef op de 6e dag van de hooimaand van het jaar 2005:

> You can calculate the offset of where you are like this:
>
> martin at ubuntu:~ $ python
> Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 30 2005, 21:51:10)
> [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> py> import time
> py> offset = 0
> py> if time.daylight:
> py.     offset = time.altzone
> py. else:
> py.     offset = time.timezone
> py.
> py> print offset
> -7200
> py>
>
> You can use time.time() to get the UTC time, then add the offset.

The offset is for this moment, not for the date and time of the
string parsed.

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