Convert numpy.datetime64 to string object in python

Question

I am having trouble converting a python datetime64 object into a string. For example:

t = numpy.datetime64(\'2012-06-30T20:00:00.000000000-0400\         


        

Answer 1

Building on this answer I would do the following:

import numpy
import datetime
t = numpy.datetime64('2012-06-30T20:00:00.000000000')
datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t.item() / 10**9).strftime('%Y.%m.%d')

The division by a billion is to convert from nanoseconds to seconds.