Shift time in python using datetime & timedelta:

import datetime
 from datetime import timedelta

 date1 = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
 # output of date1: datetime.datetime(2017, 11, 8, 10, 24, 25, 19492)
 date2 = date1 + timedelta(days=1)
 # output of date2: datetime.datetime(2017, 11, 9, 10, 24, 25, 19492)

To get your new date in EPOCH:

at_epoch = (date2 - datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1)).total_seconds()
 # output of subtract: 1510223065.019492

To turn EPOCH to datetime:

import time

 from_epoch = time.localtime(1510223065.019492)
 # output: time.struct_time(tm_year=2017, tm_mon=11, tm_mday=9, tm_hour=13, tm_min=54, tm_sec=25, tm_wday=3, tm_yday=313, tm_isdst=0)

 formatted_date = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.localtime(1510223065.019492))
 # output: 2017-11-09 13:54:25

#python #epoch #datetime #time #timedelta #strftime

To get time in epoch in linux`/`OS X you can use date with formatting like below:

date +%s

The output of the command is similar to the following output:

1518517636

#linux #osx #date #epoch