The T doesn’t really stand for anything. It is just the separator that the ISO 8601 combined date-time format requires. You can read it as an abbreviation for Time. The Z stands for the Zero timezone, as it is offset by 0 from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Both characters are just static letters in … Read more
If you want to convert a python datetime to seconds since epoch you could do it explicitly: >>> (datetime.datetime(2012,4,1,0,0) – datetime.datetime(1970,1,1)).total_seconds() 1333238400.0 In Python 3.3+ you can use timestamp() instead: >>> datetime.datetime(2012,4,1,0,0).timestamp() 1333234800.0 Why you should not use datetime.strftime(‘%s’) Python doesn’t actually support %s as an argument to strftime (if you check at http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior it’s … Read more
Actually I had the same problem and I realized that, if you add a hyphen between the % and the letter, you can remove the leading zero. For example %Y/%-m/%-d. This only works on Unix (Linux, OS X), not Windows (including Cygwin). On Windows, you would use #, e.g. %Y/%#m/%#d.
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’))
In bash (>=4.2) it is preferable to use printf’s built-in date formatter (part of bash) rather than the external date (usually GNU date). As such: # put current date as yyyy-mm-dd in $date # -1 -> explicit current date, bash >=4.3 defaults to current time if not provided # -2 -> start time for shell … Read more