Date convertation utilities

dateutil.py

import datetime
import time

def timestamp_from_date(year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds):
    t = datetime.datetime(year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds).timetuple()
    return time.mktime(t)
    
def date_from_utc_timestamp(timestamp):
    # about date string formatting: http://strftime.org/
    return datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp).strftime('%b %d, %Y %I:%M %p')  # 'Apr 18, 2015 06:04 AM'