Python Create unix timestamp five minutes in the future

Another way is to use calendar.timegm:

future = datetime.datetime.utcnow() + datetime.timedelta(minutes=5)
return calendar.timegm(future.timetuple())

It's also more portable than %s flag to strftime (which doesn't work on Windows).

Now in Python >= 3.3 you can just call the timestamp() method to get the timestamp as a float.

import datetime
current_time = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
unix_timestamp = current_time.timestamp() # works if Python >= 3.3

unix_timestamp_plus_5_min = unix_timestamp + (5 * 60)  # 5 min * 60 seconds

Just found this, and its even shorter.

import time
def expires():
    '''return a UNIX style timestamp representing 5 minutes from now'''
    return int(time.time()+300)

You can use datetime.strftime to get the time in Epoch form, using the %s format string:

def expires():
    future = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(seconds=5*60)
    return int(future.strftime("%s"))

Note: This only works under linux, and this method doesn't work with timezones.