Converting Datetime to Unix TimeStamp in SQLalchemy Model
Before moving to the demonstration let’s see an overview of a few tools that we will be using in this article.
- Python is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, OpenSource programming language that is used for a variety of software development projects. SQLalchemy is basically referred to as the toolkit of Python SQL that provides developers with the flexibility of using the SQL database. It is a popular Python Object Relational Mapper (ORM) that provides developers with all of the abilities and functionality of SQL using Python as a language.
- Unix timestamp is a way of measuring the time that is profoundly used by computers. A Unix timestamp is a number something like `1683052688000` which represents the total time in seconds from the Unix Epoch (January 1st, 1970 at UTC).
Convert datetime to unix timestamp in SQLAlchemy model
When dealing with databases date and time are considered to be one of the most important attributes for any entity. With such data, we often encounter some common task of converting DateTime to a Unix timestamp. In this article, we will learn how we can convert datetime to Unix timestamp in SQLAlchemy.