Covert Time to UNIX Time

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

Eduardo Fuentes — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:51:31 GMT

It would be enough by adding a new function to it as follows:

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

because a java.sql.timestamp should already meet your requirement I believe.

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

chetany — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:46:44 GMT

Thanks Eduardo. I am wondering if we can modify that plugin to make it more generic. We could modify it to take a datetime as a parameter, and it should return the milliseconds since Unix epoch to the given datetime. And if no datetime is specified, it will generate the milliseconds from epoch till now()

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

Eduardo Fuentes — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:54:00 GMT

Although that plug-in only works if what you want to convert to the timestamp is "now()". Just thought it'd make sense to mention it.

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

Eduardo Fuentes — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:41:39 GMT

Another option: forum.appian.com/.../summary

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

chetany — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:13:42 GMT

@Eduardo, thanks for sharing. It can be useful to know how to do it the other way.

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

Eduardo Fuentes — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 04:51:27 GMT

And here's a suggestion from someone to do it the other way around forum.appian.com/.../f-159035

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

sahilb — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:48:49 GMT

Thanks chetany. It is working properly.

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

chetany — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 12:20:03 GMT

Please create a rule input and use it instead of fn!now() in the above expression. It will give you the expected output for the sample input you have mentioned.

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

chetany — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 12:14:27 GMT

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 datetime (now()) to UNIX timestamp
with(

local!unixEpoch : fn!datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0,0,0,0),

local!intervalDiff: fn!now() - local!unixEpoch,

local!stringintervalDiff: fn!tostring(local!intervalDiff),

local!days: fn!tointeger(local!intervalDiff),

local!stringPartExcludingDays: fn!split(local!stringintervalDiff, "::")[2],

local!splitPartExcludingDays: fn!split(local!stringPartExcludingDays, ":"),

local!hours: fn!tointeger(local!splitPartExcludingDays[1]),

local!minutes: fn!tointeger(local!splitPartExcludingDays[2]),

local!seconds: fn!tointeger(local!splitPartExcludingDays[3]),

local!days*24*3600 + local!hours*3600 + local!minutes*60 + local!seconds

)

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

Eduardo Fuentes — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:25:57 GMT

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;
}

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

sahilb — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:16:01 GMT

I want to convert the Appian current timestamp into THE UTC format (Current Unix Timestamp).
e.g: 10/08/2016 @ 6:43am (UTC) is equivalent to: "1475909014". I want "1475909014" as an output

RE: Covert Time to UNIX Time

Eduardo Fuentes — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:01:05 GMT

Can you provide an example to make sure I suggest something that suits your requirement ? Is it really a long out of the date and time what you want to generate?