Simon Willison’s Weblog

IanVisits: London Events Calendar. Ian Mansfield maintains a superb calendar of cultural (and geeky) events in London. Lectures, tours, bat walks, film screenings... did you know there’s a Festival of Model Tramways this weekend?

# 16th July 2009, 7:22 pm / calendar, events, ian-mansfield, ian-visits, london

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.

# 3rd September 2007, 1:54 am / calendar, datetime, python, sam-ruby, time, timezones, unixtimestamp