Re: converting seconds since epoch to time string - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Subject Re: converting seconds since epoch to time string
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Msg-id Pine.A41.3.95.1001114184610.42972O-100000@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
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In response to converting seconds since epoch to time string  (Bill Morrow <wmorrow@home.com>)
List pgsql-novice
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Bill Morrow wrote:

> I have an integer column which holds a time represented
> as the number of seconds since 1970/01/01 00:00 UTC. I want to
> view this table with the time converted to an understandable text string.

If perl programming is remotely involved at any point in this,
I heartedly recommend you view Date::Manip, the swiss-army
chainsaw of Date/Time manipulations.  The only thing it seems
to barf on is character time zone data.  There are too many
time zones which have the same abbreviations.

Gord

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