I have a string representing a unix timestamp (i.e. "1284101485") in Python, and I'd like to convert it to a readable date. When I use time.strftime
, I get a TypeError
:
>>>import time
>>>print time.strftime("%B %d %Y", "1284101485")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: argument must be 9-item sequence, not str
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'))