diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -752,17 +752,6 @@ datetime(1970, 1, 1) + timedelta(seconds=timestamp) - There is no method to obtain the timestamp from a :class:`datetime` - instance, but POSIX timestamp corresponding to a :class:`datetime` - instance ``dt`` can be easily calculated as follows. For a naive - ``dt``:: - - timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)) / timedelta(seconds=1) - - And for an aware ``dt``:: - - timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)) / timedelta(seconds=1) - .. versionchanged:: 3.3 Raise :exc:`OverflowError` instead of :exc:`ValueError` if the timestamp is out of the range of values supported by the platform C @@ -1054,6 +1043,39 @@ Return the proleptic Gregorian ordinal of the date. The same as ``self.date().toordinal()``. +.. method:: datetime.timestamp() + + Return POSIX timestamp corresponding to the :class:`datetime` + instance. The return value is a :class:`float` similar to that + returned by :func:`time.time`. + + Naive :class:`datetime` instances are assumed to represent local + time and this method relies on the platform C :c:func:`mktime` + function to perform the conversion. Since :class:`datetime` + supports wider range of values than :c:func:`mktime` on many + platforms, this method may raise :exc:`OverflowError` for times far + in the past or far in the future. + + For aware :class:`datetime` instances, the return value is computed + as:: + + (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)).total_seconds() + + .. versionadded:: 3.3 + + .. note:: + + There is no method to obtain the POSIX timestamp directly from a + naive :class:`datetime` instance representing UTC time. If your + application uses this convention and your system timezone is not + set to UTC, you can obtain the POSIX timestamp by supplying + ``tzinfo=timezone.utc``:: + + timestamp = dt.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc).timestamp() + + or by calculating the timestamp directly:: + + timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)) / timedelta(seconds=1) .. method:: datetime.weekday() diff --git a/Lib/datetime.py b/Lib/datetime.py --- a/Lib/datetime.py +++ b/Lib/datetime.py @@ -1434,6 +1434,15 @@ self.hour, self.minute, self.second, dst) + def timestamp(self): + "Return POSIX timestamp as float" + if self._tzinfo is None: + return _time.mktime((self.year, self.month, self.day, + self.hour, self.minute, self.second, + -1, -1, -1)) + self.microsecond / 1e6 + else: + return (self - _EPOCH).total_seconds() + def utctimetuple(self): "Return UTC time tuple compatible with time.gmtime()." offset = self.utcoffset() @@ -1889,7 +1898,7 @@ timezone.utc = timezone._create(timedelta(0)) timezone.min = timezone._create(timezone._minoffset) timezone.max = timezone._create(timezone._maxoffset) - +_EPOCH = datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc) """ Some time zone algebra. For a datetime x, let x.n = x stripped of its timezone -- its naive time. diff --git a/Lib/test/datetimetester.py b/Lib/test/datetimetester.py --- a/Lib/test/datetimetester.py +++ b/Lib/test/datetimetester.py @@ -1735,6 +1735,42 @@ got = self.theclass.utcfromtimestamp(ts) self.verify_field_equality(expected, got) + # Run with US-style DST rules: DST begins 2 a.m. on second Sunday in + # March (M3.2.0) and ends 2 a.m. on first Sunday in November (M11.1.0). + @support.run_with_tz('EST+05EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0') + def test_timestamp_naive(self): + t = self.theclass(1970, 1, 1) + self.assertEqual(t.timestamp(), 18000.0) + t = self.theclass(1970, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4) + self.assertEqual(t.timestamp(), + 18000.0 + 3600 + 2*60 + 3 + 4*1e-6) + # Missing hour defaults to standard time + t = self.theclass(2012, 3, 11, 2, 30) + self.assertEqual(self.theclass.fromtimestamp(t.timestamp()), + t + timedelta(hours=1)) + # Ambiguous hour defaults to DST + t = self.theclass(2012, 11, 4, 1, 30) + self.assertEqual(self.theclass.fromtimestamp(t.timestamp()), t) + + # Timestamp may raise an overflow error on some platforms + for t in [self.theclass(1,1,1), self.theclass(9999,12,12)]: + try: + s = t.timestamp() + except OverflowError: + pass + else: + self.assertEqual(self.theclass.fromtimestamp(s), t) + + def test_timestamp_aware(self): + t = self.theclass(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc) + self.assertEqual(t.timestamp(), 0.0) + t = self.theclass(1970, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, tzinfo=timezone.utc) + self.assertEqual(t.timestamp(), + 3600 + 2*60 + 3 + 4*1e-6) + t = self.theclass(1970, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, + tzinfo=timezone(timedelta(hours=-5), 'EST')) + self.assertEqual(t.timestamp(), + 18000 + 3600 + 2*60 + 3 + 4*1e-6) def test_microsecond_rounding(self): for fts in [self.theclass.fromtimestamp, self.theclass.utcfromtimestamp]: diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Library ------- +- Issue #2736: Added datetime.timestamp() method. + - Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer non-string argument to SystemExit. diff --git a/Modules/_datetimemodule.c b/Modules/_datetimemodule.c --- a/Modules/_datetimemodule.c +++ b/Modules/_datetimemodule.c @@ -766,6 +766,8 @@ /* The interned UTC timezone instance */ static PyObject *PyDateTime_TimeZone_UTC; +/* The interned Epoch datetime instance */ +static PyObject *PyDateTime_Epoch; /* Create new timezone instance checking offset range. This function does not check the name argument. Caller must assure @@ -4748,6 +4750,44 @@ } static PyObject * +datetime_timestamp(PyDateTime_DateTime *self) +{ + PyObject *result; + + if (HASTZINFO(self) && self->tzinfo != Py_None) { + PyObject *delta; + delta = datetime_subtract((PyObject *)self, PyDateTime_Epoch); + if (delta == NULL) + return NULL; + result = delta_total_seconds(delta); + Py_DECREF(delta); + } + else { + struct tm time; + time_t timestamp; + memset((void *) &time, '\0', sizeof(struct tm)); + time.tm_year = GET_YEAR(self) - 1900; + time.tm_mon = GET_MONTH(self) - 1; + time.tm_mday = GET_DAY(self); + time.tm_hour = DATE_GET_HOUR(self); + time.tm_min = DATE_GET_MINUTE(self); + time.tm_sec = DATE_GET_SECOND(self); + time.tm_wday = -1; + time.tm_isdst = -1; + timestamp = mktime(&time); + /* Return value of -1 does not necessarily mean an error, but tm_wday + * cannot remain set to -1 if mktime succeeded. */ + if (timestamp == (time_t)(-1) && time.tm_wday == -1) { + PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError, + "timestamp out of range"); + return NULL; + } + result = PyFloat_FromDouble(timestamp + DATE_GET_MICROSECOND(self) / 1e6); + } + return result; +} + +static PyObject * datetime_getdate(PyDateTime_DateTime *self) { return new_date(GET_YEAR(self), @@ -4894,6 +4934,9 @@ {"timetuple", (PyCFunction)datetime_timetuple, METH_NOARGS, PyDoc_STR("Return time tuple, compatible with time.localtime().")}, + {"timestamp", (PyCFunction)datetime_timestamp, METH_NOARGS, + PyDoc_STR("Return POSIX timestamp as float.")}, + {"utctimetuple", (PyCFunction)datetime_utctimetuple, METH_NOARGS, PyDoc_STR("Return UTC time tuple, compatible with time.localtime().")}, @@ -5151,6 +5194,12 @@ return NULL; Py_DECREF(x); + /* Epoch */ + PyDateTime_Epoch = new_datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, + PyDateTime_TimeZone_UTC); + if (PyDateTime_Epoch == NULL) + return NULL; + /* module initialization */ PyModule_AddIntConstant(m, "MINYEAR", MINYEAR); PyModule_AddIntConstant(m, "MAXYEAR", MAXYEAR);