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EML
EML

Reputation: 455

datetime.date.fromtimestamp: ignores hour and minute

The following code returns '2012-06-07 00:00' for both the timestamp 1339119900000 and 1339120800000:

>>> from datetime import date
>>> date.fromtimestamp(1339119900000/1e3).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
'2012-06-07 00:00'
>>> date.fromtimestamp(1339120800000/1e3).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
'2012-06-07 00:00'

However, these timestamps are 15 minutes apart, and neither of them are exactly midnight.

I'm running 32bit Python 2.7.3 on a Windows 7 machine, but noticed the same on a Red Hat machine. Why is this and how can I get hour and minute resolution from a timestamp?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4513

Answers (2)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1122342

You are creating date objects, not datetime. Dates ignore all time information.

Use datetime objects instead if you want to preserve the time component:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(1339119900000/1e3).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
'2012-06-08 02:45'
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(1339120800000/1e3).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
'2012-06-08 03:00'

Upvotes: 7

Mike Müller
Mike Müller

Reputation: 85482

date does not have hours or minutes use datetime.datetime

>>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(1339119900000/1e3).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
'2012-06-08 03:45'

Upvotes: 1

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