I extracted data from an Excel cell of time format m/d/yy h:mm with the number content ‘1645704206000’. When converted to its string equivalent which shows the time, it is 2/24/22 12:03.
How do I convert this number ‘1645704206000’ to 2/24/22 12:03 using python?
The timezone is in GMT timezone.
I am using Python 3.9 and Excel 2019.
>Solution :
It looks like there is a problem in the question related to Excel’s natural internal representation. But if you are interested in converting timestamps (with milliseconds) into a string, human-readable date, you can use datetime module in python:
from datetime import datetime
import pytz
tzHong = pytz.timezone('Hongkong')
tzGMT = pytz.timezone('Etc/GMT')
dateString = "1645704206000"
date = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(float(dateString)/1000)
print("Date in Hongkong: " + date.astimezone(tz=tzHong).strftime("%m-%d-%y %I:%M"))
print("Date in GMT: " + date.astimezone(tz=tzGMT).strftime("%m-%d-%y %I:%M"))
Output
Date in Hongkong: 02-24-22 08:03
Date in GMT: 02-24-22 12:03
Also note that the date you are showing (2/24/22 12:03) is in the GMT timezone, not Hongkong. Both time zones are shown in the code above. Make sure which one works for your desired output. Also, the answer provided by this answer is in 12-hour clock format. If you are interested in 24-hour format, just change %I in the code above with %H.