Recipe Difficulty: Easy
Python Version: 2.7 or 3.5
Operating System: Any
One important element of any good log file is the timestamp. This value conveys the date and time of the activity or event noted in the log. These date values can come in many formats and may be represented as numbers or hexadecimal values. Outside of logs, different files and artifacts store dates in different manners, even if the data type remains the same. A common differentiating factor is the epoch value, which is the date that the format counts time from. A common epoch is January 1, 1970, though other formats count from January 1, 1601. Another factor that differs between formats is the interval used for counting. While it is common to see formats that count seconds or milliseconds, some formats count blocks of time, such as the number of 100-nanoseconds since the epoch. Because of this...
