How to convert Datetime to Unix timestamp in V

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    import time

    fn main() {
        // Create a date (time.Time structure) for 2010-09-17 02:11:23
        date := time.Time{
            year: 2010
            month: 9
            day: 17
            hour: 2
            minute: 11
            second: 23
        }
    
        // Convert Date to Unix timestamp
        unix_timestamp := date.unix_time()
    
        println("Unix Timestamp: $unix_timestamp")
    }

Output:

Unix Timestamp: 1284689483

Example only. There may be multiple ways to perform this operation.

Code Explanation

In this V snippet for converting a date to Unix timestamp the time.Time structure is initialized with the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second representing the date '2010-09-17 02:11:23'. The unix_time() method is then called on the time.Time object to retrieve the corresponding Unix timestamp. The result is printed as a Unix timestamp.

Convert Unix timestamp to Date in V

Other useful V date functions

Function	Description	Example
`time.unix()`	Converts a Unix timestamp into a `time.Time` object.	`time.unix(1514764800)` returns Time{2018, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0}
`Time.unix_time()`	Returns the Unix timestamp for a given `time.Time` object.	`date.unix_time()` returns 1531656645 (for July 15, 2018).
`Time.format()`	Formats a `time.Time` object into a custom string format.	`date.format('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss')` returns 2018-07-15 12:30:45
`time.now()`	Returns the current date and time as a `time.Time` object.	`time.now()` returns the current date and time.
`time.Time{}`	Creates a `time.Time` object with the specified date and time values.	`time.Time{year: 2018, month: 7, day: 15, ...}` creates a Time object for 2018-07-15 12:30:45.

Current Unix Timestamp SECONDS SINCE JAN 01 1970

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2025-08-20