Hi all,

I have a date which is represented by the number of milliseconds since January 01, 1970. I need to change this back to DATE format. Is there any built in function in DB2 to do the needed conversion ?

In Oracle i was able to do the conversion by the following statement.

select to_char(to_date('01/01/1970','mm/dd/yyyy'),'mm/dd/yyyy') + milliseconds/86400000) from dual;

Note: In the above sql statement, milliseconds is the no: of milliseconds of the desired date.

You should be able to do it with straight math:


select date(timestamp('01/01/1970','00:00:00') + (milliseconds * 1000) microseconds) ...

Andy

Make sure that you account for the timezone difference - UNIX time (milliseconds since 1/1/1970) is always UTC.