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Asked: 2026-06-07T23:12:42+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Converting unix timestamp string to readable date in Python When I do

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Converting unix timestamp string to readable date in Python

When I do time.time() I get something like: 1342648659.223746. How can I convert it to unix time that looks like this: 2012-07-18T21:42:00Z?

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    Python’s standard datetime module is quite handy for all kinds of date/time manipulation.

    For your particular problem, the isoformat() method is handy. For example, if you already have a time in seconds since the Epoch (such as your 1342648659.223746):

    >> from datetime import datetime
>> datetime.fromtimestamp(1342648659.223746).isoformat()
== '2012-07-18T23:57:39.223746'

    And if you just want the current (UTC) time, ISO formatted:

    >> datetime.utcnow().isoformat()
== '2012-07-19T00:06:45.724468'

    If you absolutely require the timezone information in your output (i.e. the Z for UTC in your example), you’ll either have to append it manually, or fall back to using strftime:

    >> datetime.utcnow().strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')
== '2012-07-18T22:11:05Z'
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