Mastodawn

I'm writing Python and I'm not a Python person.

I have a need to get a Unix timestamp of a time that is an arbitrary number of days ago.

In PowerShell, you can do something like this:

PS > Get-Date -Date (Get-Date).AddDays(-30) -UFormat %s

In Python, this is the best I came up with and it is ugly:

import re
import datetime

`int(re.split('\\.',str((datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC) - datetime.timedelta(days=30)).timestamp()))[0])`

That was from me reading module documentation and hacking away at it for a bit.

Surely, there is a better way.

I'm interfacing with an API that only takes datetime in Unix Time format and only down to the second in precision.

Out of my mind, I'd try to use numpy. If I remember well you can use an arbitrary date and set precision.

import datetime

unix_time = int((datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) - datetime.timedelta(days=30)).timestamp())

That was mine using datetime. Pretty much the same as others.

But using numpy, it is a little bit longer:

import numpy as np

unix_time = int((np.datetime64('now') - np.timedelta64(30, 'D')).astype('datetime64[s]').astype(int))