How to read the page times?

[Aurel Stenzel]

Hey all, 

I have a question regarding the page times which I can download from the server page (under the name epoch_time). I am not sure how to read the numbers format which looks e.g. like that: 1611315862. Can someone help me here?

Best,

Aurel

[Chris @ oTree]

Epoch time is also known as "unix time". It is the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. You can find lots of info about it online, how to convert it to something readable (either in Python or Excel, etc).

[krish...@gmail.com]

Hi Chris 

Does the difference in epoch time that I can obtain here only show me the time spent rounded to the nearest second (and not include milliseconds)?

[Chris @ oTree]

Yes because if oTree recorded the exact millisecond, it would be misleading because those extra digits would not be significant. The timestamps are all recorded on the server, meaning they are affected by network latency and page load times, etc. they are just useful to get an estimate within a second or two.