I'm trying to convert a time stamp from an iPhone database that's stored in Hex as part of a Python script.
I have searched online and been unable to find how it's done.
An example of the time stamps:
41 C4 C2 FA 5E 8C E8 64 which is equal to 29/01/2023 00:26:37 (UTC).
I know this as a couple of tools such as deCode are able to convert it, but now "workings out" are shown.
Thanks
As stated I been unable to find the actual method of converting the hex into a readable time. Multiple tools are able to convert it, just not as part of the script
Your string is a big-endian representation of a double-precision floating point number representing the number of seconds since 1/1/2001. So:
import time
import datetime
import struct
x = "41 C4 C2 FA 5E 8C E8 64"
z = bytes([int(x1,16) for x1 in x.split()])
p = struct.unpack('>d',z)[0]
print(p)
d = datetime.datetime(2001,1,1,0,0,0)
d = d.timestamp()+p
print(time.ctime(d))
Output:
696644797.100842
Sun Jan 29 00:26:37 2023