Convert the Timestamp Value in Python

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In databases, storing dates and times as timestamp values is quite common.

Unix timestamp or Unix time is the system that expresses a point on the time axis, using the number of seconds to determine the time, with the starting point from 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970 in UTC time.

Example: At 13:54:27 - 21/05/2019 has a timestamp value of 1558446867; This means from 00:00 to 1/1/1970 to 13:54:27 - May 21, 2019 is 1558446867 seconds.

Example 1: Convert timestamp value to datetime

from datetime import datetime timestamp = 1562907183 dt_object = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp) print("dt_object =", dt_object) print("type(dt_object) =", type(dt_object))

Run the program, the result returns the date and time corresponding to the timestamp 1562907183 value :

dt_object = 2019-07-12 11:53:03 type(dt_object) =

Here, we import the datetime class from the datetime module and then use the datetime.fromtimestamp () method to return the local date and time ( datetime object ) stored in the dt_object variable .

You can easily create a time display string using the strftime method ().

Example 2: Convert datetime to timestamp value

You can retrieve the timestamp value from a datetime object using the method datetime.timestamp ().

from datetime import datetime # ngay gio hien tai now = datetime.now() timestamp = datetime.timestamp(now) print("timestamp =", timestamp) print("Ngay gio hien tai:", now)

Result:

timestamp = 1562915824.395594 Ngay gio hien tai: 2019-07-12 14:17:04.395594

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