SL4A Python SMS Date Format

Question

I am accessing my SMS messages with:

ms=droid.smsGetMessages(False, 'inbox', ['date']).result

The results are in the following format:

[{u'date': u'1416143072400'}]

How do I convert the date value to a readable format (dd/mm/yyyy)?

Answer 1

It looks like you're getting back seconds since the epoch times 1000..

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(int(u'1416143072400')//1000)
datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 16, 14, 4, 32)

Answer 2

In Python 2.x you can do

import datetime

ms = [{u'date': u'1416143072400'}]

timestamp = int(ms[0]['date'])/1000

date = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)

print date.strftime('%d/%m/%Y')

# 16/11/2014

but I don't know whether datetime is available in SL4A