Converting unix timestamp string to readable date

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I have a string representing a unix timestamp  i e   quot 1284101485 quot   in Python  and I d like to convert it to a readable date  When I use time strftime  I get a TypeError   gt  gt  gt import time  gt  gt  gt print time strftime  quot  B  d  Y quot    quot 1284101485 quot    Traceback  most recent call last     File  quot  lt stdin gt  quot   line 1  in  lt module gt  TypeError  argument must be 9-item sequence  not str

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For a human readable timestamp from a UNIX timestamp, I have used this in scripts before:

import os, datetime

datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(float(os.path.getmtime("FILE"))).strftime("%B %d, %Y")

Output:

'December 26, 2012'

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Use datetime module   from datetime import datetime ts   int  1284101485      if you encounter a  year is out of range  error the timestamp   may be in milliseconds  try  ts    1000  in that case print datetime utcfromtimestamp ts  strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S

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Other than using time datetime package  pandas can also be used to solve the same problem Here is how we can use pandas to convert timestamp to readable date   Timestamps can be in two formats    13 digits milliseconds  - To convert milliseconds to date  use   import pandas result ms pandas to datetime  1493530261000  unit  ms   str result ms   Output   2017-04-30 05 31 01   10 digits seconds  - To convert seconds to date  use   import pandas result s pandas to datetime  1493530261  unit  s   str result s   Output   2017-04-30 05 31 01

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timestamp   124542124  value   datetime datetime fromtimestamp timestamp  exct time   value strftime   d  B  Y  H  M  S     Get the readable date from timestamp with time also  also you can change the format of the date

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There are two parts    Convert the unix timestamp   seconds since epoch   to the local time Display the local time in the desired format    A portable way to get the local time that works even if the local time zone had a different utc offset in the past and python has no access to the tz database is to use a pytz timezone      usr bin env python from datetime import datetime import tzlocal      pip install tzlocal  unix timestamp   float  1284101485   local timezone   tzlocal get localzone     get pytz timezone local time   datetime fromtimestamp unix timestamp  local timezone    To display it  you could use any time format that is supported by your system e g    print local time strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S  f z   Z     print local time strftime   B  d  Y       print date in your format     If you do not need a local time  to get a readable UTC time instead   utc time   datetime utcfromtimestamp unix timestamp  print utc time strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S  f 00 00  UTC         If you don t care about the timezone issues that might affect what date is returned or if python has access to the tz database on your system   local time   datetime fromtimestamp unix timestamp  print local time strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S  f      On Python 3  you could get a timezone-aware datetime using only stdlib  the UTC offset may be wrong if python has no access to the tz database on your system e g   on Windows       usr bin env python3 from datetime import datetime  timezone  utc time   datetime fromtimestamp unix timestamp  timezone utc  local time   utc time astimezone   print local time strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S  f z   Z       Functions from the time module are thin wrappers around the corresponding C API and therefore they may be less portable than the corresponding datetime methods otherwise you could use them too      usr bin env python import time  unix timestamp    int  1284101485   utc time   time gmtime unix timestamp  local time   time localtime unix timestamp  print time strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S   local time    print time strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S 00 00  UTC    utc time

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In Python 3 6   import datetime  timestamp   1579117901 value   datetime datetime fromtimestamp timestamp  print f quot  value  Y- m- d  H  M  S  quot    Output  in UTC  2020-01-15 19 51 41  Explanation  Line  1  Import datetime library  Line  2  Unix time which is seconds since 1970-01-01  Line  3  Converts this to a unix time object  check with  type value  Line  4  Prints in the same format as strp   Bonus To save the date to a string then print it  use this  my date   f quot  value  Y- m- d  H  M  S  quot  print my date

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The most voted answer suggests using fromtimestamp which is error prone since it uses the local timezone  To avoid issues a better approach is to use UTC  datetime datetime utcfromtimestamp posix time  strftime   Y- m- dT H  M  SZ    Where posix time is the Posix epoch time you want to convert

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import datetime temp   datetime datetime fromtimestamp 1386181800  strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S   print temp

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gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  datetime fromtimestamp 1172969203 1  datetime datetime 2007  3  4  0  46  43  100000    Taken from http   seehuhn de pages pdate

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quick and dirty one liner    -  join str x  for x in list tuple datetime datetime now   timetuple     6       2013-5-5-1-9-43

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You can convert the current time like this  t datetime fromtimestamp time time    t strftime   Y- m- d    2012-03-07    To convert a date in string to different formats   import datetime time  def createDateObject str date strFormat   Y- m- d            timeStamp   time mktime time strptime str date strFormat       return datetime datetime fromtimestamp timeStamp   def FormatDate objectDate strFormat   Y- m- d        return objectDate strftime strFormat   Usage       o createDateObject  2013-03-03   print FormatDate o   d- m- Y    Output 03-03-2013

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i just successfully used    gt  gt  gt  type tstamp  pandas tslib Timestamp  gt  gt  gt  newDt   tstamp date    gt  gt  gt  type newDt  datetime date

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You can use easy date to make it easy   import date converter my date string   date converter timestamp to string 1284101485    B  d   Y

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gt  gt  gt  import time  gt  gt  gt  time ctime int  1284101485     Fri Sep 10 16 51 25 2010   gt  gt  gt  time strftime   D  H  M   time localtime int  1284101485      09 10 10 16 51

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Note that utcfromtimestamp is confusing and can lead to unexpected results due to the resulting naive datetime object  Better be explicit and set tz argument in fromtimestamp  from datetime import datetime  timezone  dtobj   datetime fromtimestamp 1284101485  timezone utc   print dtobj isoformat    print repr dtobj     2010-09-10T06 51 25 00 00   datetime datetime 2010  9  10  6  51  25  tzinfo datetime timezone utc   Not specifying the time zone  tz  will lead to naive datetime  which Python treats as local time - while UNIX time refers to UTC

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Another way that this can be done using gmtime and format function   from time import gmtime print    -  -             format  gmtime 1538654264 703337      Output  2018-10-4 11 57 44

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