title: What is the easiest way to get current GMT time in Unix timestamp format?
body: <p>Python provides different packages (<code>datetime</code>, <code>time</code>, <code>calendar</code>) as can be seen <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8542723/change-datetime-to-unix-time-stamp-in-python">here</a> in order to deal with time. I made a big mistake by using the following to get current GMT time <code>time.mktime(datetime.datetime.utcnow().timetuple())</code></p>
  
  <p>What is a simple way to get current GMT time in Unix timestamp?</p>