UNIX Epoch time

[rjuli...@gmail.com]

Hello.....

I am building an interface to an online service,

and they send back JSON, with dates/times encoded

in UNIX epoch time.

I know that means the number of seconds since

Jan. 1, 1970.

Is there a simple way that already exists to do the conversion?

I know it's not difficult....just want to use something in place

and supported, if possible.

THANKS!

[mar...@feldtmann.online]

You might search "unix epoch" for a thread somewhere 2023

[mar...@feldtmann.online]

And another thread 2022

[Esteban A. Maringolo]

Hello Julian,

There is no out of the box support to instantiate and convert DateAndTime instances from/to UNIX Time integer representation.

So besides the suggestions pointed by Marten (in older forum discussions), you might consider using the attached fileouts to achieve what you want.

I hope you find them useful.

Best regards,

ps: As a side note, if you need to deal with UNIX Time coming from elsewhere, then there isn't much you can do, but if you're defining the API, going with an ISO 8601 string representation is way more reliable, as UNIX time doesn't consider leap seconds, daylight saving times and other adjustments that probably did happen, and will happen, after Jan 1st 1970.

Esteban Maringolo Senior Software Developer  emari...@instantiations.com  @emaringolo  /emaringolo  instantiations.com

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[Esteban A. Maringolo]

Hi Julian, all,

We decided to add these methods as part of the Kernel/CLDT apps for the next release of VAST.

Best regards,

Esteban Maringolo Senior Software Developer  emari...@instantiations.com  @emaringolo  /emaringolo  instantiations.com