Re: Datetime stored in bigint - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: Datetime stored in bigint
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Msg-id 0799d7d42d6a3e15e954899916321e96@biglumber.com
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In response to Re: Datetime stored in bigint  (dev ss <ssdev938@gmail.com>)
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> Its an EMR  and from the front end i see 7/11/2011 4:29:41 PM
> and in the database i see 634459985818906250.

Okay, that helps a little bit more. Working backwards, I determined
that this is the number of nanoseconds since year 0, i.e. when
we switched from BC to AD. Thus, we can divide out the nanoseconds,
compute the number of hours, and get the date we want. Here's a
quick function to do just that:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION yearzero_to_timestamp(BIGINT)
RETURNS TIMESTAMP
IMMUTABLE
LANGUAGE SQL
AS $bc$
  SELECT '0001-01-01'::date + ('1 hour'::interval * (SELECT $1/10000000/60/60.0));
$bc$;

SELECT yearzero_to_timestamp(634459985818906250);

 yearzero_to_timestamp
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 2011-07-11 16:29:00

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