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# pandas.Timestamp.timestamp

Timestamp.timestamp()

  Return POSIX timestamp as float.

  This method converts the Timestamp object to a POSIX timestamp, which is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch (January 1, 1970). The returned value is a floating-point number, where the integer part represents the seconds, and the fractional part represents the microseconds.

  Returns:
    float

      The POSIX timestamp representation of the Timestamp object.

  See also

  `Timestamp.fromtimestamp`

    Construct a Timestamp from a POSIX timestamp.

  `datetime.datetime.timestamp`

    Equivalent method from the datetime module.

  `Timestamp.to_pydatetime`

    Convert the Timestamp to a datetime object.

  `Timestamp.to_datetime64`

    Converts Timestamp to numpy.datetime64.

  Examples

      >>> ts = pd.Timestamp('2020-03-14T15:32:52.192548')
      >>> ts.timestamp()
      1584199972.192548