Converting Time question

Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE at YOURthirdtower.com.imagination
Tue Mar 28 07:02:40 EST 2006


Math enlightened us with:
> I measure a time at racing events.this tracktime is measures in the format 
> hh:mm:ssDDD
> where DDD = thousands of a second...like 17:14:11.769
> This format is being saved as a number of micro seconds since 1970..
> like 1,090516451769E+15
> How do I convert from the micros seconds back to time format above?

Use the datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() function, after dividing the
number of milliseconds by 1000 to create seconds.

Sybren
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