Re: unixtime update syntax

2003-12-02 Thread Michael Stassen
From: Keith C. Ivey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unixtime update syntax On 2 Dec 2003 at 7:57, Ron McKeever wrote: I have a db that gets data dumped into it. One of the columns gets unix timestamp data "utime". I what t

RE: unixtime update syntax

2003-12-02 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 2 Dec 2003 at 9:12, Ron McKeever wrote: > Thats seems like a bug to me. > > I would think FROM_UNIXTIME would take a unixtime stamp > and covert it to what it is. We know its from GMT A Unix timestamp represents a particular second in time. It doesn't have a time zone associated with it. Y

RE: unixtime update syntax

2003-12-02 Thread Ron McKeever
Message- From: Keith C. Ivey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unixtime update syntax On 2 Dec 2003 at 7:57, Ron McKeever wrote: > I have a db that gets data dumped into it. One of the columns gets > unix timestamp data

Re: unixtime update syntax

2003-12-02 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 2 Dec 2003 at 7:57, Ron McKeever wrote: > I have a db that gets data dumped into it. One of the columns gets > unix timestamp data "utime". I what to covert that into a datetime > column so I can utlize indexes and such. But I still what the unixtime > to remain. You can use indexes with a Uni

RE: unixtime update syntax

2003-12-02 Thread Ron McKeever
(0.00 sec) Any ideas? Ron -Original Message- From: Dan Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 8:30 AM To: Ron McKeever; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: unixtime update syntax The time zone matters... your results are exactly 8 hours off... PST is gmt -8.

RE: unixtime update syntax

2003-12-02 Thread Dan Greene
The time zone matters... your results are exactly 8 hours off... PST is gmt -8. So it looks like the from_unixtime function is converting to what the time was locally at that moment in GMT. Not what I would have expected either What do you get when you run- select unix_timestamp(urtime) f