The datetime
module can convert a POSIX timestamp
to a ITC datetime
object.
The Epoch is January 1st, 1970 midnight.
import time
from datetime import datetime
seconds_since_epoch=time.time() #1469182681.709
utc_date=datetime.utcfromtimestamp(seconds_since_epoch) #datetime.datetime(2016, 7, 22, 10, 18, 1, 709000)