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Convert unix timestamp in Python to datetime and make 2 Hours behind

I have this code, recieve a unix timestamp from a server which is 2 hours ahead of my time. My time is SAST and theirs is GMT +2.

I convert this timestamp in python to a readable datetime like this

import datetime

unixtimestamp = 1507126064
datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(unixtimestamp).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

The problem is that this time comes back two hours ahead of me, so what would be the easiest way to minus two hours or make it local time.

Solution

  • With datetime.timedelta object: 

    from datetime import datetime, timedelta

unix_ts = 1507126064
dt = (datetime.fromtimestamp(unix_ts) - timedelta(hours=2)).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
print(dt)