topic Re: epoch _time conversion in Getting Data In

epoch _time conversion

_dave_b — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:50:23 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to retrieve a readable time value from a time stamp, so I ran this command:

eval "Time of most recent Update"=tostring(_time,"duration")

and I get back a value like this:

16723+03:58:46.647379

when _time is originally 2015 10-14 23:10:54.111
This looks suspect to me. Is 16723+03:58:46.647379 the correct value? How do I interpret it?

Thanks

Re: epoch _time conversion

sundareshr — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:07:44 GMT

duration is time in seconds. For a human readable time format, look at strftime() In you example strftime(_time, "%Y %M%D") would give you 2015 10 14.

Re: epoch _time conversion

_dave_b — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 22:11:26 GMT

Thanks! That helped a lot