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Convert Unix-timestamp to MS Access Date/Time field.

 
 
Reply Sat 11 Mar, 2006 03:18 pm
I'm looking for code that will allow me to store a date in a table as a Unix-Timestamp, but display it and edit it in an MS Access form as human readable Date/Time.

Any help would be apreciated.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Mon 13 Mar, 2006 08:23 am
If I recall correctly, MS Access stores time fields as Julian dates. What format does Unix-Timestamp use?
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roverroad
 
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Reply Mon 13 Mar, 2006 08:45 am
DrewDad wrote:
If I recall correctly, MS Access stores time fields as Julian dates. What format does Unix-Timestamp use?


I guess it would have to be an unbound field with code behind it to convert to the unix date.

A Unix time stamp is seconds since '1970-01-01 00:00:00' UTC. For example, the time and date of 3/12/2006, 7:47:13 would be "1142149633".

This PHPBB (Able2Know) message board stores all of it's date and times in Unix-Timestamp.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Mon 13 Mar, 2006 09:50 am
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Julian dates (abbreviated JD) are simply a continuous count of days and fractions since noon Universal Time on January 1, 4713 BCE (on the Julian calendar). Almost 2.5 million days have transpired since this date.


It should be straight-forward to convert from Julian to Unix-Timestamp.

Subtract the Julian date of 1/1/1970 00:00:00 from your stored date. Then convert the result to seconds. (Multiply the result by 86400, the number of seconds in one day.)
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Mon 13 Mar, 2006 09:51 am
And don't forget to adjust for the time zone.
roverroad
 
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Reply Mon 13 Mar, 2006 09:27 pm
True, that part is just a matter of mathematics. I'm having trouble with the syntax though. I'm not familiar with programming in Access. I suppose I will have to take some tutorials. I was hoping someone would just magically poop out the code for me. :wink:
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timwoolfson
 
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Reply Sat 15 Dec, 2007 12:07 pm
Hello anyone who landed on this forum thread:

Unix Time Stamp records seconds since '1970-01-01 00:00:00'

Microsoft store a number representing the number of complete days since '1970-01-00 00:00:00' i.e. 1 = '1970-01-01 00:00:00'

So, Microsoft's date value for the beginning of the unix era '1970-01-01 00:00:00' is 25569

The number of seconds in 25569 days is:
25569*24*60*60
= 2209161600

The number of seconds in 1 day is:
24*60*60
= 86400
So in Access:

Code:HumanDate: Format(([unixdate]+2209161600)/86400,"dd/mm/yy hh:nn:ss")


Hope the readers of this thread find this post helpful.

I think of got this straight but obviously use at your own risk :-)

Tim Woolfson
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roverroad
 
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Reply Mon 17 Dec, 2007 07:55 am
Well, I've long since figured this problem out, but thanks for the reply.
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kgordo
 
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Reply Thu 6 Mar, 2008 02:36 pm
I'm just a visiting stranger, but I found this very helpful. It's exactly the answer I came looking for...
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Danyman
 
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Reply Thu 8 Oct, 2009 07:21 am
thank you for the helpfull formula.
Danyman_de (GER)
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janetlockett
 
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Reply Fri 9 Oct, 2009 02:11 pm
@timwoolfson,
You solved me millions of headaches. THANK YOU!!!!!
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tony1120
 
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Reply Tue 16 Nov, 2010 11:34 pm
@timwoolfson,
btw,Microsoft's date value for the beginning of the unix era '1970-01-01 08:00:00' is what?
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gcomyn
 
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Reply Fri 15 Apr, 2016 04:14 am
@timwoolfson,
I've been looking for this conversion for ages!!! this helps me so much...

Now I just have to put it somewhere I can remember where it is... *gryn*

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BamaGirl
 
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Reply Fri 27 Oct, 2017 01:39 pm
@DrewDad,
How do I write the formula for this to include timezone and daylight savings
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