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FILETIME to datetime (Python recipe) by Julian Rath
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Converting a FILTIME in a datetime is sometime verry useful if you use ctypes with win API.

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import datetime

_FILETIME_null_date = datetime.datetime(1601, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)
def FiletimeToDateTime(ft):
    timestamp = ft.dwHighDateTime
    timestamp <<= 32
    timestamp |= ft.dwLowDateTime
    return _FILETIME_null_date + datetime.timedelta(microseconds=timestamp/10)
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1 comment

Kent Tenney 17 years ago  # | flag

type problem. This looks interesting, but I'm missing something::

>>> import os
>>> statinfo = os.stat('/tmp/test.file')
>>> print type(statinfo.st_ctime)



>>> cdt = FiletimeToDateTime(ctypes.c_long(creation))

TypeError: int expected instead of float instance

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks, Kent

Created by Julian Rath on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 (PSF)
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