Python3 Get epoch time first and last day of month - python-3.x

Question

Given a month and a year, such as 03 2022, I need to get the epoch time of the first day of the month and the last day of the month. I am not sure how to do that. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

You can get the beginning of the month easily by setting the day to 1.
To get the end of the month conveniently, you can calculate the first day of the next month, then go back one day.
Then set the time zone (tzinfo) to UTC to prevent Python using local time.
Finally a call to .timestamp()
import datetime
def date_to_endofmonth(
dt: datetime.datetime, offset: datetime.timedelta = datetime.timedelta(days=1)
) -> datetime.datetime:
"""
Roll a datetime to the end of the month.
Parameters
----------
dt : datetime.datetime
datetime object to use.
offset : datetime.timedelta, optional.
Offset to the next month. The default is 1 day; datetime.timedelta(days=1).
Returns
-------
datetime.datetime
End of month datetime.
"""
# reset day to first day of month, add one month and subtract offset duration
return (
datetime.datetime(
dt.year + ((dt.month + 1) // 12), ((dt.month + 1) % 12) or 12, 1
)
- offset
)
year, month = 2022, 11
# make datetime objects; make sure to set UTC
dt_month_begin = datetime.datetime(year, month, 1, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
dt_month_end = date_to_endofmonth(dt_month_begin).replace(tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
ts_month_begin = dt_month_begin.timestamp()
ts_month_end = dt_month_end.timestamp()
print(ts_month_begin, ts_month_end)
# 1667260800.0 1701302400.0

Answer 2

Unable to comment due to reputation but #FObersteiner is excellent just I would recommend a small change.
For example running the current code it would produce this for Nov 2022
print(dt_month_begin.timestamp())
print(dt_month_begin)
print(dt_month_end.timestamp())
print(dt_month_end)
--->
1667260800.0
2022-11-01 00:00:00+00:00
1701302400.0
2023-11-30 00:00:00+00:00
Note the year field
I'd suggest the following
import datetime
def date_to_endofmonth(
dt: datetime.datetime, offset: datetime.timedelta = datetime.timedelta(seconds=1)
) -> datetime.datetime:
"""
Roll a datetime to the end of the month.
Parameters
----------
dt : datetime.datetime
datetime object to use.
offset : datetime.timedelta, optional.
Offset to the next month. The default is 1 second; datetime.timedelta(seconds=1).
Returns
-------
datetime.datetime
End of month datetime.
"""
# reset day to first day of month, add one month and subtract offset duration
return (
datetime.datetime(
dt.year + ((dt.month + 1) // 13), ((dt.month + 1) % 12) or 12, 1
)
- offset
)
year, month = 2022, 11
# make datetime objects; make sure to set UTC
dt_month_begin = datetime.datetime(year, month, 1, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
dt_month_end = date_to_endofmonth(dt_month_begin).replace(tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
Differences being floor division by 13 instead of 12 to handle the month of November.
Changing the offset to seconds delta because I felt the user ( and myself who came looking for the answer) wanted the starting epoch time and the ending epoch time so
Nov 1st 00:00:00 --> Nov 30th 23:59:59 would be better than
Nov 1st 00:00:00 --> Nov 30th 00:00:00 ( Losing a day worth of seconds)
Output of the above would be
:
1667260800.0
2022-11-01 00:00:00+00:00
1669852799.0
2022-11-30 23:59:59+00:00