Re: Datetime stored in bigint

Maybe have a good read through here too Greg:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/functions-datetime.html

James



On 15 July 2011 22:13, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
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>> We have a program store into postgres database as UTF-8 format
>> i need to convert this value from 634301616478281250 to
>> date time format.
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> You'll have to tell us where you are getting that number from,
> and (possibly) what timestamp it should map to. From the size of it,
> I would guess it's the number of nanoseconds since some point of time.
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> The point in time it's coming from may be 1970-01-01, 1900-01-01,
> or something else (e.g. 1601-01-01). (Different computer systems
> store time differently). If it's the standard Unix epoch (1970)
> that corresponds to February 1990, if that helps.
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