[ python-Feature Requests-1673409 ] datetime module missing some important methods

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Feature Requests item #1673409, was opened at 2007-03-04 06:59
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>Category: Python Library
>Group: Python 2.6
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Jon Ribbens (jribbens)
>Assigned to: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Summary: datetime module missing some important methods

Initial Comment:
The datetime module is missing some important methods for interacting with timestamps (i.e. seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00).

There are methods to convert from a timestamp, i.e. date.fromtimestamp and datetime.fromtimestamp, but there are no methods to convert back.

In addition, timedelta has no method for returning the number of seconds it represents (i.e. days*86400+seconds+microseconds/1000000).

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