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This answer is also a little bit wrong. getmtime is the nearest thing available on Unix (where getting creation dates isn't possible), but is definitely not the best function to use on Windows, where the ctime is a creation time.

Mark Amery
– Mark Amery

2016-09-12 20:00:50 +00:00
Commented Sep 12, 2016 at 20:00
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@MarkAmery - This answer is clearly labeled as just being about modification time.

ArtOfWarfare
– ArtOfWarfare

2017-01-19 18:30:54 +00:00
Commented Jan 19, 2017 at 18:30
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I strongly recommend using datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t, tz=datetime.timezone.utc) here, as the naive datetime object returned otherwise has a tendency to be interpreted as being in the local timezone instead while Unix timestamps are always relative to the 01.01.1970 00:00 UTC.

ntninja
– ntninja

2022-01-26 18:29:47 +00:00
Commented Jan 26, 2022 at 18:29

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