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Author	belopolsky
Recipients	Jay.Taylor, Neil Muller, amaury.forgeotdarc, andersjm, belopolsky, catlee, davidfraser, erik.stephens, guettli, hodgestar, jribbens, lemburg, mark.dickinson, ping, pitrou, r.david.murray, steve.roberts, tim.peters, tomster, vivanov, vstinner, werneck
Date	2011-04-07.18:31:56
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Velko Ivanov <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. >> Converting datetime values to float is easy. If your dt is a naive instance representing UTC time: >> >> timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)) / timedelta(seconds=1) >> >> If your dt is an aware instance: >> >> timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)) / timedelta(seconds=1) > > Please add these lines to the datetime module's documentation. In some > central, well lit place. I believe that if nothing else, the whole > discussion should have proved to you that there are many people looking > for them. This is precisely what I suggested at the end of msg132697 above. See attached patch (issue2736-doc.diff) for a proposed documentation enhancement.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Velko Ivanov <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
>> Converting datetime values to float is easy.   If your dt is a naive instance representing UTC time:
>>
>>     timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1)) / timedelta(seconds=1)
>>
>> If your dt is an aware instance:
>>
>>     timestamp = (dt - datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)) / timedelta(seconds=1)
>
> Please add these lines to the datetime module's documentation. In some
> central, well lit place. I believe that if nothing else, the whole
> discussion should have proved to you that there are many people looking
> for them.

This is precisely what I suggested at the end of msg132697 above.  See
attached patch (issue2736-doc.diff) for a proposed documentation
enhancement.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-04-07 18:32:02	belopolsky	set	recipients: + belopolsky, lemburg, tim.peters, ping, jribbens, guettli, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, davidfraser, pitrou, andersjm, catlee, vstinner, tomster, werneck, hodgestar, Neil Muller, erik.stephens, steve.roberts, r.david.murray, vivanov, Jay.Taylor
2011-04-07 18:31:56	belopolsky	link	issue2736 messages
2011-04-07 18:31:56	belopolsky	create