Freeside:1.7:Documentation:Dates

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Introduction

Freeside stores most dates as "Unix time" - the number of seconds elapsed since midnight UTC on the morning of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds.

Conversion in Perl

  • Conversion from UNIX time: see the localtime function or the Date::Format module.
  • Conversion to UNIX time: see the Date::Parse or Time::Local modules, among others.

Conversion in PostgreSQL

  • Conversion from UNIX time (substitute in your own time zone, date field and output field name):

'epoch'::TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE AT TIME ZONE 'PST' + _date_field * '1 second'::INTERVAL AS output_fieldname

Conversion in Crystal Reports

  • Download the U2lwin32 user function library
  • Use the provided "EpochToDateTime" function
  • Note: Untested. If it works for you, edit the page and remove this note.