Datetime field timestamp

[Roberts R]

Hello
Is there a way to got timestamp from FieldDatetime? Like $page->event_start->timestamp?
Lets say that I have datetime field that have following format 'd/m/Y' and I'm trying to get week number from given field. $datetime->date('W'); (returns : 01) but $datetime->date('W',$page->start_date) (returns: 03) but should be same.

There is workaround, but that just seems too much ?

$datetime->date('W', $datetime->stringToTimestamp($page->event_start, 'd/m/Y'));

[bernhard]

https://processwire.com/api/ref/page/get-unformatted/

$timestamp = $page->getUnformatted('event_start');

 

[Roberts R]

Thanks, that works.