from datetime import datetime
import calendar
def epoch_to_iso8601(timestamp):
"""
epoch_to_iso8601 - convert the unix epoch time into a iso8601 formatted date
>>> epoch_to_iso8601(1341866722)
'2012-07-09T22:45:22'
"""
return datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp).isoformat()
def iso8601_to_epoch(datestring):
"""
iso8601_to_epoch - convert the iso8601 date into the unix epoch time
>>> iso8601_to_epoch("2012-07-09T22:27:50.272517")
1341872870
"""
return calendar.timegm(datetime.strptime(datestring, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f").timetuple())
if __name__ == "__main__":
import doctest
doctest.testmod()