How do I create a datetime in Python from milliseconds?
What about this? I presume it can be counted on to handle dates before 1970 and after 2038.
target_datetime_ms = 200000 # or whatever
base_datetime = datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1)
delta = datetime.timedelta(0, 0, 0, target_datetime_ms)
target_datetime = base_datetime + delta
as mentioned in the Python standard lib:
fromtimestamp() may raise ValueError, if the timestamp is out of the range of values supported by the platform C localtime() or gmtime() functions. It’s common for this to be restricted to years in 1970 through 2038.
Very obviously, this can be done in one line:
target_dt = datetime(1970, 1, 1) + timedelta(milliseconds=target_dt_ms)
Converting millis to datetime (UTC):
import datetime
time_in_millis = 1596542285000
dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time_in_millis / 1000.0, tz=datetime.timezone.utc)
Converting datetime to string following the RFC3339 standard (used by Open API specification):
from rfc3339 import rfc3339
converted_to_str = rfc3339(dt, utc=True, use_system_timezone=False)
# 2020-08-04T11:58:05Z
Just convert it to timestamp
datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(ms/1000.0)