How To Convert Date Before 1970 In Python

I wrote a method to handle mongodb result, where date is coming as datetime.datetime() i used dumps method, which converts the date is not milliseconds, here if the date is before

Solution 1:

I got the solution for date convertion before 1970 as below:

need to replace the code in if((string.find(key,"$date"))>=0): block as

ndate = datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1) + datetime.timedelta(seconds=(returnValue)/1000)
returnValue  = str(ndate).replace(' ','T')

I got the solution from the another question in stackoverflow Timestamp out of range for platform localtime()/gmtime() function