meteociel.utils.get_seconds

meteociel.utils.get_seconds(date: datetime, ref_string: str = '1970-01-01 01:00', ref_fmt: str = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')

Compute the elapsed seconds since a given reference time (by default epoch).

Parameters

datedatetime: Date up to which the number of elapsed seconds is to be calculated.
ref_stringstr, optionnal: By default: "1970-01-01 01:00" (epoch). The time to be used as reference for calculations.
ref_fmtstr, optionnal: By default: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M". The format to be used to read ref_string. For more information on format codes, please see the datetime documentation

Returns

outint: The number of elapsed seconds between the reference and the given time.

Exemples

This exemple computes the number of elapsed seconds between epoch and 2022/08/18 00h GMT:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from meteociel import utils
>>> utils.get_seconds(datetime.strptime("2022-08-18 00", "%Y-%m-%d %H"))
1660777200