How to convert time.gmtime()-like tuple to UNIX time?

Question

time.mktime is said to be the reverse of time.localtime.

Where is the reverse of time.gmtime? It is needed to convert the result of email.utils.parsedate to normal UNIX time.

The only approximation is hack like this:

time.mktime(email.utils.parsedate(smth)) - time.altzone

How to do it right?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 17 '12 at 19:39

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edited May 17 '12 at 19:39

answered May 17 '12 at 16:47

Dave

Always seemed stupid to me that that function was in a completely separate module, rather than the time module. – Lawrence D'Oliveiro May 18 '12 at 01:56

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