python - How to get unix timestamp from numpy.datetime64

Question

How do I get the UNIX time from a numpy.datetime64 or numpy.datetime_?

As in for example:

np.datetime_('2012-08-08 13:37:00')

Answer 1

In order to account for the units, I think you need to do something like:

def get_unixtime(dt64):
    return dt64.astype('datetime64[s]').astype('int')

Note that this converts to 'seconds' (the [s]) prior to converting to integers. This works on NumPy 1.12.1.