ssl.cert_time_to_seconds()

ssl.cert_time_to_seconds(cert_time)

Return the time in seconds since the Epoch, given the cert_time string representing the “notBefore” or “notAfter” date from a certificate in "%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z" strptime format (C locale).

Here’s an example:

>>> import ssl
>>> timestamp = ssl.cert_time_to_seconds("Jan  5 09:34:43 2018 GMT")
>>> timestamp
1515144883
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> print(datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp))
2018-01-05 09:34:43

“notBefore” or “notAfter” dates must use GMT (RFC 5280).