Convert DateField to unix timestamp in Django

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How can I convert a DateField() value to unit timestamp representation in Django?

possible duplicate of [django Datefield to Unix timestamp](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1259219/django-datefield-to-unix-timestamp) — Adam Link, Jun 02 '15 at 18:25
`DateField()` returns `datetime` regular python object, there are many solutions on the web describing how to convert python `datetime` object to unix timestamp. — dydek, Jun 02 '15 at 18:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '16 at 17:20

As the DateField() returns a native Python datetime.date instance, https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html, it will be the same as converting a datetime.date object to a unix timestamp integer.. such as:

import time
import django.models as models

date = models.DateField()
unix_timestamp = int(time.mktime(date.timetuple()))

Convert DateField to unix timestamp in Django

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