Converting unix timestamp string to readable date

Question

I have a string representing a unix timestamp (i.e. \"1284101485\") in Python, and I\'d like to convert it to a readable date. When I use time.strftime, I get a

Answer 1

The most voted answer suggests using fromtimestamp which is error prone since it uses the local timezone. To avoid issues a better approach is to use UTC:

datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(posix_time).strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')

Where posix_time is the Posix epoch time you want to convert