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3rd September 2007 - Link Blog

calendar.timegm() (via) An “unrelated but handy function” that converts a time.gmtime() in to a corresponding Unix timestamp. I’ve been hand-rolling this one for years; never thought to look in calendar.

Posted 3rd September 2007 at 1:54 am

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