diff --git a/boswatch.py b/boswatch.py
index 03ce8da..b0b423a 100755
--- a/boswatch.py
+++ b/boswatch.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import logging.handlers
 import argparse     # for parse the args
 import ConfigParser # for parse the config file
 import os           # for log mkdir
-import time         # for timestamp
+import time         # for time.sleep()
 import subprocess   # for starting rtl_fm and multimon-ng
 
 from includes import globals  # Global variables
diff --git a/includes/helper/timeHandler.py b/includes/helper/timeHandler.py
index 7c45fb4..d6b2ad9 100644
--- a/includes/helper/timeHandler.py
+++ b/includes/helper/timeHandler.py
@@ -47,3 +47,11 @@ def getTime():
 	@return: Formated time
 	"""
 	return curtime("%H:%M:%S")
+
+def getTimestamp():
+	"""
+	Returns a integer timestamp
+
+	@return: integer timestamp
+	"""
+	return int(time.time()
diff --git a/plugins/interface.txt b/plugins/interface.txt
index ee2860b..73ecbec 100644
--- a/plugins/interface.txt
+++ b/plugins/interface.txt
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ from includes.helper import timeHandler
 timeHandler.curtime("FORMAT") # without format string the function returns with "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S"
 timeHandler.getDate() # Gets the date in "%d.%m.%Y"
 timeHandler.getTime() # Gets the time in %H:%M:%S
+timeHandler.getTimestamp() # Gets a integer timestamp
 
 
 # replace all the standard wildcards in the given text