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How to display a Linux Time Stamp?

Solved3.86K views18th October 2023linux time
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Dominique Bodart [DevOps Member]693 18th July 2023 0 Comments

Hi,

An API send me back information with Linux format time stamp as 32 bits Unsigned Integer like:

1689690756 which means "2023-07-18 14:32:36 UTC".  In the parameter to retrieve that value, I set "Measurment" as follow:

<Measurement>
<Type options="time">number</Type>
</Measurement>

And the result is: "19556 days 14h 32m 36s". So, its ok for the hours but not for the date. I couldn't find any reference to Linux time in the "SLC_UM_DataMinerDevelopmentLibrary_REV030" manual. So, is there a way to handle linux time in parameters and translate them properly without going through a QAction which could do the job?

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 18th October 2023

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João Severino [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst]12.94K Posted 18th July 2023 1 Comment

Hi Dominique,

As far as I know, there is no direct way of achieving this directly but it could be possible with either a QAction and using the C# DateTime object or alternatively if you do not want to use a QAction you could use a combination of Sequence and DateTime measurement option

You would in essence convert from Unix Time Stamp format to OLE Date format with a set of operations in the Sequence tag and then you would use the DateTime option to make it display as a Date Time in your parameter.

The mathematical expression you need is as follows:

OLE Automation Date = (Unix Timestamp / 86400) + 25569

Where 86400 is the number of seconds in a day and 25569 is the offset between the "origin" dates of each of the formats

Which would translate into

<Sequence noset="true">div:86400;offset:25569</Sequence>

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 18th October 2023
Dominique Bodart [DevOps Member] commented 19th July 2023

Thank you João,

This indeed a the simplest way so far to handle Linux Time Stamp. So, I apply:
div:86400;offset:25569

And:

number

Which gives the correct result:

19/07/2023 08:45:09, for instance

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