Thanks for the responses
Regards
John Berman
-Original Message-
From: Weaver, Walt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14 December 2004 14:43
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Epoch seconds
Here's a SQL statement that converts dates to epoch time in Oracle.
I'm too
John Berman wrote:
I have a table that has start_date and expire_date in the format: 2004-12-31
That is an output format... yes? If the column is a string type
(char/varchar/text...), you should change it to a DATE type, or maybe
TIMESTAMP. The default output format for DATE type columns is
Here's a SQL statement that converts dates to epoch time in Oracle.
I'm too lazy to convert it to MySQL but it should give you a start.
select 86400 * ( to_date('14-feb-2000 10:38:39', 'dd-mon-
hh24:mi:ss')
- to_date('01-jan-1970', 'dd-mon-') )
from dual;
--Walt
