I'm in the Mountain Time Zone (GMT-6 right now): #!/usr/bin/env python import datetime for when_was in xrange(0,10): print datetime.datetime.fromtime

I'm in the Mountain Time Zone (GMT-6 right now): #!/usr/bin/env python import datetime for when_was in xrange(0,10): print datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(14 * 10**when_was) $ ./theabove.py 1969-12-31 17:00:14 1969-12-31 17:02:20 1969-12-31 17:23:20 1969-12-31 20:53:20 1970-01-02 07:53:20 1970-01-16 21:53:20 1970-06-11 18:53:20 1974-06-09 02:53:20 2014-05-13 10:53:20 2413-08-22 17:53:20 <krt@box>:~$ python -c "import datetime;print datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1400000000)" 2014-05-13 09:53:20