I originally posted this question looking for an answer with using python, got some good help, but have still not been able to find a solution. I have a script running on OS
Use the datetime module. For example, if the number of microseconds in questions is 10**16:
>>> datetime.datetime(1601, 1, 1) + datetime.timedelta(microseconds=1e16)
datetime.datetime(1917, 11, 21, 17, 46, 40)
>>> _.isoformat()
'1917-11-21T17:46:40'
this tells you it was just past a quarter to 6pm of November 21, 1917. You can format datetime
objects in any way you want thanks to their strftime
method, of course. If you also need to apply timezones (other than the UTC you start with), look at third-party module pytz.