RE: unix time conversion function

From: Cary Millsap <cary.millsap_at_hotsos.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:29:05 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0053A2C3.20030124142905@fatcity.com>

At the risk of stating the obvious, doing it in Perl looks like this:  

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Date::Format qw(time2str);

my $t = 1043447100; # for example

print time2str("%T %A %d %B %Y", $t), "\n";  

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-----Original Message-----
Ethan
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L  

Kinda...you can change the year to 1970 if you want, this also converts to minutes, not seconds. It is a really ugly function but it seems to work. You could always use perl.  

function f_minutes {

   # Funky function I use to calculate the number of minutes since 2000

   MIN_YEAR=$( date +"%Y" )
   MIN_YEAR=$( expr ${MIN_YEAR} - 2000 )
   MIN_YEAR=$( expr ${MIN_YEAR} \* 525600 )
   MIN_DAYS=$( date +"%j" )
   MIN_DAYS=$( expr "${MIN_DAYS}" - 1 )
   MIN_DAYS=$( expr "${MIN_DAYS}" \* 1440 )
   MIN_HOURS=$( date +"%H" )
   MIN_HOURS=$( expr "${MIN_HOURS}" \* 60 )
   MIN_MINS=$( date +"%M" )
   MIN_TOTAL=$(( ${MIN_YEAR} + ${MIN_DAYS} + ${MIN_HOURS} + ${MIN_MINS}

))

   print ${MIN_TOTAL}
}

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:MATT.ADAMS_at_APPL.GE.COM]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:14 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Anybody got a handy little function to
convert a standard unix seconds-since-Jan-1970 epoch time (stored as a number) to a readable date?

It would save me a lot of time not having to re-invent the wheel.

Matt

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