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How to get epoch time
I need to pass epoch time to a library it would be good we have a function, otherwise, every time need to call command shell to get from windows powershell
Best Answer
You can try to use the following matshell script:
/*The time difference between the machine running the code to the UTC time zone. Can be positive or negative*/
hoursfromutc = 7
/*Calculate "now" in UTC*/
utc = addtotime(currenttime2str('yyyy/M/d/H/m/ss'),hoursfromutc,'hour','yyyy/M/d/H/m/ss')
/*convert to a numeric vector to be used with time2str*/
utcvect = str2num(str2vect(utc, '/'))
/*calculate the diff between now(as UTC) to epoch time (1/1/1970)*/
epoch = timediff(time2str(utcvect,'M/d/yyyy H:mm'),'1/1/1970 0:00','M/d/yyyy H:mm')
It will be almost accurate, but there's still the issue of providing the hours from UTC (7 in this example), which will change between time zones and daylight saving.
Same thing as one-line:
epoch = timediff(time2str(str2num(str2vect(addtotime(currenttime2str('yyyy/M/d/H/m/ss'),7,'hour','yyyy/M/d/H/m/ss'), '/')),'M/d/yyyy H:mm'),'1/1/1970 0:00','M/d/yyyy H:mm')
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