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?

Thanks in Advance

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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…

0 chetany
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over 8 years ago

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()
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0 Eduardo Fuentes
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over 8 years ago

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.
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