From 991c3ecfe0b2a31f97dae81b324c230a323c89d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "sentry-junior[bot]"
 <264270552+sentry-junior[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:04:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ref(utils): Remove unused to_timestamp helper and epoch
 constant

The last callers of to_timestamp were removed with the old metrics code
in #4899. epoch was only used by to_timestamp.
---
 sentry_sdk/utils.py | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sentry_sdk/utils.py b/sentry_sdk/utils.py
index eeee118ed7..b9be3d8936 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/utils.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/utils.py
@@ -79,8 +79,6 @@
     R = TypeVar("R")
 
 
-epoch = datetime(1970, 1, 1)
-
 # The logger is created here but initialized in the debug support module
 logger = logging.getLogger("sentry_sdk.errors")
 
@@ -248,10 +246,6 @@ def capture_internal_exception(exc_info: "ExcInfo") -> None:
         logger.error("Internal error in sentry_sdk", exc_info=exc_info)
 
 
-def to_timestamp(value: "datetime") -> float:
-    return (value - epoch).total_seconds()
-
-
 def format_timestamp(value: "datetime") -> str:
     """Formats a timestamp in RFC 3339 format.