A Newb Learns Python

Easily Readable Unix Timestamps In Python

If you need readable unix timestamps stop mucking with strftime and its impossible to remember formatting, just use time.ctime()

>>> import time
>>> time.time()
1334182778.770024
>>> time.ctime()
'Wed Apr 11 22:20:29 2012'
>>> t = time.time()
>>> time.ctime(t)
'Wed Apr 11 22:20:34 2012'