Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

How to do it...

Most recent Python versions introduced a method to quickly convert datetimes back and forth from timestamps:

>>> import datetime
>>> ts = 1521588268

>>> d = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(ts)
>>> print(repr(d))
datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 20, 23, 24, 28)

>>> newts = d.timestamp()
>>> print(newts)
1521584668.0