import time


def convertTime(timeStr):
    """
    The data file headers have the timestamp of data collection. Sometimes you want to
    convert that to numbers for data's sake, but I constantly forget the functions
    to convert it from the time-stamp string. So here you go
    :param timeStr: the time as a string from the data file
    :return: int of the time since the epoch
    """
    return time.mktime(time.strptime(timeStr, "%x %X%p"))