Calculating Future Epoch Time in C#

There is an interesting twist when you want to know the Unix Epoch time in .Net on a Windows system. For nearly all practical cases and assuming the current time is past the Unix Epoch you could indeed take System.TimeSpan timeDifference = DateTime.UTCNow – new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc); long unixEpochTime = … Read more

When is std::chrono epoch?

It is a function of both the specific clock the time_point refers to, and the implementation of that clock. The standard specifies three different clocks: system_clock steady_clock high_resolution_clock And the standard does not specify the epoch for any of these clocks. Programmers (you) can also author their own clocks, which may or may not specify … Read more

How to convert epoch time with nanoseconds to human-readable?

First, convert it to a datetime object with second precision (floored, not rounded): >>> from datetime import datetime >>> dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(1360287003083988472 // 1000000000) >>> dt datetime.datetime(2013, 2, 7, 17, 30, 3) Then to make it human-readable, use the strftime() method on the object you get back: >>> s = dt.strftime(‘%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S’) >>> s ‘2013-02-07 … Read more

Converting epoch number to human readable date in mysql

Your epoch value 1389422614485 seems like having the millisecond precision. So you need to use some mysql mathematical functions along with from_unixtime() for generating human readable format. mysql> select from_unixtime(floor(1389422614485/1000)); +——————————————+ | from_unixtime(floor(1389422614485/1000)) | +——————————————+ | 2014-01-11 12:13:34 | +——————————————+ Update July 2020: As of MySQL 8.0, the floor function is no longer necessary when … Read more