["python","datetime","unix-timestamp"]
Convert python datetime to timestamp in milliseconds

How do I convert a human-readable time such as 20.12.2016 09:38:42,76 to a Unix timestamp in milliseconds?
In Python 3 this can be done in 2 steps: Convert timestring to datetime object Multiply the timestamp of the datetime object by 1000 to convert it to milliseconds. For example like this: from datetime import datetime dt_obj = datetime.strptime('20.12.2016 09:38:42,76', '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S,%f') millisec = dt_obj.timestamp() * 1000 print(millisec) Output: 1482223122760.0 strptime accepts your timestring and a format string as input. The timestring (first argument) specifies what you actually want to convert to a datetime object. The format string (second argument) specifies the actual format of the string that you have passed. Here is the explanation of the format specifiers from the official documentation: %d - Day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number. %m - Month as a zero-padded decimal number. %Y - Year with century as a decimal number %H - Hour (24-hour clock) as a zero-padded decimal number. %M - Minute as a zero-padded decimal number. %S - Second as a zero-padded decimal number. %f - Microsecond as a decimal number, zero-padded to 6 digits.