python datetime fromtimestamp yielding valueerror year out of range

Python Problem Overview

When attempting to convert a float formatted timestamp e.g 1437506779950.0 into a datetime object, I'm getting a ValueError "year is out of range".

This code that I used, was working not 3 months ago. Revisiting it now, strangely is now throwing this error yet nothing in the code base has changed, only the data that is being passed to it, and the only data that has changed there is obviously the timestamp.

>>> f = 1437506779950.0
>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(float(f))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: year is out of range

I can't understand what would have changed to make this break?

Python Solutions

Solution 1 - Python

As noted in the answer for this question, this looks like a unit conversion issue. You have to divide your timestamp by 1000 to convert from milliseconds to seconds.

If you want to preserve millisecond precision, instead divide by 1000.0.

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