About

The Epoch Date Time Conversions is an Extension that offers functionality for date time conversions.

The Unix epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT), not counting leap seconds (in ISO 8601: 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z).

With this component you can easily convert between usual date and time formats and the epoch format

Feature List

Get Current Epoch

Return the Epoch given a Date and Time

Datetime to Epoch

Returns the Date and Time (in DateTime format) given the Epoch

Epoch to Datetime

Return Epoch corresponding to the current Date and Time (given in DateTime format)

Instructions

Download and install the Epoch Date Time Conversions

Open the Forge Epoch Date Time Conversions webpage and download the component. The demo application can also be downloaded. Install it.

Create the Epoch Date Time Conversions dependency

Open the Manage Dependencies option and search for Extended DateTime. Select from the Epoch Date Time Conversions the action or actions for your purposes and apply changes.

Create Local Variable(s) in a screen or block

To have a better control and to manage the sources of your data, it is suggested to create local variables, by choosing Date and Time Data Types, that then will be used as input parameters for the selected function. Observe that some functions do NOT require any input parameters while others require both input and output parameters

Assign Values to Parameters

You can use other sources of data, the standard Input widget or you may prefer to use selection widgets such as the Date Picker and or the Time Picker to assign values to the Date or Time Parameters

Create the Action Flow for the purpose of refreshing the calculations

Create a Flow to integrate the Action that refreshes the calculations, when new data is inserted or selected, in order to get the return of the function. The Action should be connected to a Screen or Block using a button or a link to perform it.

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