[Tutor] can time.time() be reversed so as to get date?

[vince spicer]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Shashwat Anand <anand.shashwat at gmail.com>wrote:

> If I have been given the number of seconds from midnight 1970.01.01 GMT,
> can I calculate the date, month and time in the following format : 'Fri Nov
> 6 9:58:16 2009' ?
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Sure,

   you can get datetime from a teimstamp

EX:


from datetime import datetime
import time

now = time.time()

date = datetime.fromtimestamp(now)

print date.strftime("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y")



Vince
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