From 67b0bf333918e60f0473986d9bdc30c1f8d645c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Isaac Sanders <651597+isaacsanders@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:37:41 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Handles floats in more places (#1110)

---
 backend/common/src/helper.py                 | 4 +++-
 backend/common/tests/test_src/test_helper.py | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backend/common/src/helper.py b/backend/common/src/helper.py
index 0bb43aca..c6f0f06c 100644
--- a/backend/common/src/helper.py
+++ b/backend/common/src/helper.py
@@ -103,13 +103,15 @@ def requests_headers() -> dict[str, str]:
     return {"User-Agent": template}
 
 
-def date_parser(timestamp: int | str | None) -> str | None:
+def date_parser(timestamp: int | float | str | None) -> str | None:
     """return formatted date string"""
     if timestamp is None:
         return None
 
     if isinstance(timestamp, int):
         date_obj = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp, tz=timezone.utc)
+    elif isinstance(timestamp, float):
+        date_obj = datetime.fromtimestamp(int(timestamp), tz=timezone.utc)
     elif isinstance(timestamp, str) and timestamp.isdigit():
         date_obj = datetime.fromtimestamp(int(timestamp), tz=timezone.utc)
     elif isinstance(timestamp, str):
diff --git a/backend/common/tests/test_src/test_helper.py b/backend/common/tests/test_src/test_helper.py
index 73578a76..acc81e46 100644
--- a/backend/common/tests/test_src/test_helper.py
+++ b/backend/common/tests/test_src/test_helper.py
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ def test_date_parser_with_digit():
     assert date_parser(timestamp) == expected_date
 
 
+def test_date_parser_with_float():
+    """iso timestamp"""
+    date_float = 1766210400.0
+    expected_date = "2025-12-20T06:00:00+00:00"
+    assert date_parser(date_float) == expected_date
+
+
 def test_date_parser_with_str():
     """iso timestamp"""
     date_str = "2021-05-21"