Re: Timestamps and php

[tomas]

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On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 01:24:38AM +0100, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Using a XML-RPC call, I am returned this information:
> 
> :datetime (19198 34091)
> 
> I'd like this to be transformed in something I can read. I know
> encode/decode functions but I don't know how I can display the
> result using format-time-string. Any idea ?

(format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" (current-time) t)
  => "2009-11-15 06:14:49"

[That's in UTC -- see the function doc for tons and tons of options]

> While at it, how can I convert a date into a "PHP timestamp"
> which, as far as I know, looks like 1258190619.0.

Whatever a "PHP timestamp" may be, but it looks a lot like the number of
seconds since the Epoch. You might give the function float-time a try.

Regards
- -- tomás
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