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# Timestamp to datetime

**In this article, you will learn to convert timestamp to datetime object and datetime object to timestamp (with the help of examples).**

It's pretty common to store date and time as a timestamp in a database. A Unix timestamp is the number of seconds between a particular date and January 1, 1970 at UTC.

### Example 1: Python timestamp to datetime

```
from datetime import datetime

timestamp = 1545730073
dt_object = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)

print("dt_object =", dt_object)
print("type(dt_object) =", type(dt_object))
```

When you run the program, the output will be:

```
dt_object = 2018-12-25 09:27:53
type(dt_object) = <class 'datetime.datetime'>
```

Here, we have imported `datetime` class from the [datetime](https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/datetime) module. Then, we used `datetime.fromtimestamp()` classmethod which returns the local date and time (datetime object). This object is stored in dt\_object variable.

**Note:** You can easily create a string representing date and time from a `datetime` object using [strftime()](https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/datetime/strftime) method.

### Example 2: Python datetime to timestamp

You can get timestamp from a datetime object using `datetime.timestamp()` method.

```
from datetime import datetime

# current date and time
now = datetime.now()

timestamp = datetime.timestamp(now)
print("timestamp =", timestamp)
```