On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Steven Robinson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> As you may know, SQLite is a bit special when it comes to store date-
> like data. One can use Strings, integers and floats in order to store
> dates.
> 
> Right now sqlalchemy uses ISO-style strings by default which is great
> if the database is only used by sqlalchemy. Unfortunately, I also want
> to use hibernate on top of that. Unfortunately, the java sqlite driver
> assumes those date fields to be stored as integers representing the
> number of millisecond since the early 1-1-1970 (kind of a unix
> timestamp).
> 
> I am thus looking for a way to get sqlalchemy (latest version) to
> store and read datetime data from sqlite using unix timestamps instead
> of a string.
> 
> 
> How would you suggest me for doing that?

see the EpochType example right here:

http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_8/core/types.html#augmenting-existing-types


> 
> Thank you very much in advance!
> 
> 
> S
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