Question

I have timestamp in milliseconds from 1970. I would like to convert it to a human readable date in python. I don’t might losing some precision if it comes to that.

How should I do that ?

The following give ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t on Linux 32bit

#!/usr/bin/env python
from datetime import date
print date.fromtimestamp(1241711346274)

Thank you,
Maxim.

Answer 1

Python expects seconds, so divide it by 1000.0 first:

>>> print date.fromtimestamp(1241711346274/1000.0)
2009-05-07