From stat().st_mtime to datetime?

Question

What is the most idiomatic/efficient way to convert from a modification time retrieved from stat() call to a datetime object? I came up with the following (python3):

from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone from pathlib import Path  path = Path('foo') path.touch() statResult = path.stat() epoch = datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc) modified = epoch + timedelta(seconds=statResult.st_mtime) print('modified', modified) 

Seems round a bout, and a bit surprising that I have to hard code the Unix epoch in there. Is there a more direct way?

Answer 1

You can use datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp, i.e.

from datetime import datetime, timezone ... stat_result = path.stat() modified = datetime.fromtimestamp(stat_result.st_mtime, tz=timezone.utc) print('modified', modified) 

Answer 2

This works for me if you want a readable string:

import datetime mtime = path.stat().st_mtime timestamp_str = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(mtime).strftime('%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M')