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How to Convert Unix Time to Datetime and Vice Versa in Python

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Unix timestamps are unreadable to humans, Datetimes are unreadable to machines. Time often needs to converted between Unix and Datetime. I'll demonstrate how you can do that in Python.

Unix to Datetime 

import time from datetime import datetime #convert unix to datetime print(datetime.utcfromtimestamp(time.time()).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
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Datetime to Unix 

import time from datetime import datetime #convert unix to datetime dtm = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(time.time()).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') #convert datetime back to unix dtt = datetime.strptime(dtm, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') print(datetime.timestamp(dtt))
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