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Drew Butcher
33,160 PointsOff by 4 Hours?
If I assign
epoc_date = datetime.datetime(year= 1970, month=1, day=1, hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
and
now = datetime.datetime.now()
and calculate the difference using
diff = now - epoc_date
then I should get a timedelta that represents the timestamp, correct? However when I compute:
now.timestamp() - (diff.days*86400 + diff.seconds)
I end up with 14400 seconds (which is exactly 4 hours) and some microseconds.
Why didn't I get back 0 seconds?
2 Answers
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherHmm, doing more or less the same thing, I get 7 hours. datetime.datetime.now() shouldn't have a timezone unless you specified one, which you didn't. Really, epoc_time should have a timezone of GMT, but I don't think that'll affect anything. Weird. I'll ask around a bit.
Also, easier to use diff.total_seconds() instead of (diff.days*86400 + diff.seconds) to get the total number of elapsed seconds.
Drew Butcher
33,160 PointsI guess it has something to do with time zones, which is what Kenneth Love mentioned at the end of the video; however, it seems like since i used now() I get my time zone and timestamp() should also be related to my time zone too.?.?