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Micah Pearce
Micah Pearce

Reputation: 1935

Python: How to see if a unix timestamp is before or after a time of day

I'm trying to figure out if a unix timestamp is after 21:00. However, I'm having type errors.

This is my code:

from datetime import datetime, time
theTime=1497204737
the_date = (
        datetime.fromtimestamp(
            int(theTime)
        ).strftime('%H:%M:%S')
)
if the_date >= time(21,00):
    print("we did it!")

I keep getting this error:

TypeError: '<=' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'datetime.time'

How can I fix this issue?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2742

Answers (1)

MSeifert
MSeifert

Reputation: 152647

The problem is that you convert the timestamp to a datetime but then you convert it to a string again:

>>> the_date = datetime.fromtimestamp(int(theTime)).strftime('%H:%M:%S')
>>> type(the_date)
str

There are several ways to make it work:

For example you could simply keep the timestamp as datetime and compare the hours:

from datetime import datetime, time
theTime=1497204737

the_date = datetime.fromtimestamp(int(theTime))

if the_date.hour >= 21:
    print("we did it!")

or convert the datetime to a time and compare the times:

if time(the_date.hour, the_date.minute) >= time(21, 0):
    print("we did it!")

Upvotes: 1

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