Covert Time to UNIX Time

sahilb over 8 years ago

I want to convert the time into UNIX Timestamp. Is it is possible in Appian to convert a time into UNIX Timestamp format?

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chetany over 8 years ago +1
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Here is a Expression rule that you may use to convert time to a UNIX timestamp. It makes use of the fact that the difference between two datetimes is an interval. I have used it to convert the current…

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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 8 years ago

I went through the functions documentation forum.appian.com/.../Appian_Functions.html and didn't find a way to convert to a timestamp.

Maybe building a custom function that takes a date and time and returns the time stamp. Basically if you code your custom function to return a long, and you just simply return the date and time you're passing, since the product maps it to java.sql.Timestamp I think you'll get exactly what you need.

Example

@Function
public Long getLocalTime(ServiceContext sc, @Parameter Timestamp datetime) {

return datetime;
}
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
Appian Employee
over 8 years ago

I went through the functions documentation forum.appian.com/.../Appian_Functions.html and didn't find a way to convert to a timestamp.

Maybe building a custom function that takes a date and time and returns the time stamp. Basically if you code your custom function to return a long, and you just simply return the date and time you're passing, since the product maps it to java.sql.Timestamp I think you'll get exactly what you need.

Example

@Function
public Long getLocalTime(ServiceContext sc, @Parameter Timestamp datetime) {

return datetime;
}
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