Zkteco Dat File — Reader [better]

Most ZKTeco users read and process these files by importing them into the following desktop or web-based applications:

: To get the file, you typically navigate to the device's USB Manager , select Download , and choose Attendance Data to save it to a flash drive. Ways to Read and Open .dat Files

def read_attlog(filepath): with open(filepath, 'rb') as f: data = f.read() records = [] for i in range(0, len(data), 8): if i+8 > len(data): break uid, ts = struct.unpack('<II', data[i:i+8]) dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(ts) records.append((uid, dt)) return records