How to check if a timestamp is an entire hour

Question

I am creating a python application where I get a lot of data from different time periods (from 1 minute to 1 day). I would only like to save time (unix timestamps) that are exactly for an entire hour (xx: 00 minutes). How to create this check?

Is simple enough enough if timestamp % 3600 == 0: save the timestamp? Or is there a better way?

Answer 1

The timestamp is in seconds, so 3600 should be zero.

if timestamp % 3600 == 0:
    # save the timestamp-value tuple

This is enough, you do not need to make a datetime object and check the minutes and seconds for each timestamp you get.

Answer 2

datetime.fromtimestamp

from datetime import datetime  

ts = 1415309268
cts = datetime.fromtimestamp(ts)
print(cts.minute==00)

:

cts.minute==00 and cts.second==00