How do you preserve time values with date.datefromtimestamp()

[Cameron Simpson]

On 15Sep2010 22:31, Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown at gmail.com> wrote:
| I'm doing something like
| 
| >>> today = datetime.date.fromtimestamp(1284584357.241863)
| >>> today.ctime()
| 'Wed Sep 15 00:00:00 2010'
| 
| Why isn't the time field being populated what I expect is to see something
| like Wed Sep 15 2010 16:59:17:241863

Because you asked for a "date". A "date" only has day resolution.
It's like going:

  i = int(1.234)

which quite legitimately results in "1" (the interger, not a string).

You want a datetime, thus:

  >>> today = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1284584357.241863)  
  >>> today
  datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 16, 6, 59, 17, 241863)
  >>> today.ctime()
  'Thu Sep 16 06:59:17 2010'

Note that .ctime() is a specific historic time reporting format of very
limited utility - you're a lot better off not considering it as a
storage value or as a value to print, unless you actually need to work
in the domains where it is used.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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