From 60892d4718c696735970f2e2e41c23558895a1e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Moliterno <michael.moliterno@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 01:12:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added card_created_date() function

---
 trello/card.py | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/trello/card.py b/trello/card.py
index 6c1e963a..218b37cd 100644
--- a/trello/card.py
+++ b/trello/card.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import with_statement, print_function, absolute_import
 from dateutil import parser as dateparser
+from datetime import datetime
 from trello.checklist import Checklist
 from trello.label import Label
 
@@ -268,6 +269,24 @@ def create_date(self):
         date_str = self.actions[0]['date']
         return dateparser.parse(date_str)
 
+    @property
+    def card_created_date(self):
+        """Will return the creation date of the card.
+
+        NOTE: This will return the date the card was created, even if it
+        was created on another board. The created_date() above actually just
+        returns the first activity and has the issue described in the warning.
+
+        The first 8 characters of the card id is a hexadecimal number.
+        Converted to a decimal from hexadecimal, the timestamp is an Unix
+        timestamp (the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1,
+        1970 midnight UTC.See
+        http://help.trello.com/article/759-getting-the-time-a-card-or-board-was-created
+        """
+        unix_time = int(self.id[:8],16)
+
+        return datetime.fromtimestamp(unix_time)
+
     @property
     def due_date(self):
         return dateparser.parse(self.due) if self.due else ''