For a recent project it is a requirement to change a date value to the EPOCH format. We need this EPOCH date format to automate the creation of a ticket in a Remedy system. The customer is using BMC Atrium Orchestration as a frontend to the Remedy system.<\/p>\n
What is EPOCH Time?<\/strong> Why does EPOCH time start in 1970? I\u2019ve created a small PowerShell function to convert a Get-Date input to the EPOCH date\/time format.<\/p>\n For a recent project it is a requirement to change a date value to the EPOCH format. We need this EPOCH date format to automate the creation of a ticket in a Remedy system. The customer is using BMC Atrium Orchestration as a frontend to the Remedy system. What is EPOCH Time?The Unix epoch (or … Lees verder Change the date to the EPOCH format<\/span>
The Unix epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970<\/b> (midnight UTC\/GMT), not counting leap seconds (in ISO 8601: 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z).<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>So no file can be created before 1970-01-01. … Unix was originally developed in the 60s and 70s so the “start” of Unix Time was set to January 1st 1970 at midnight GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) – this date\/time was assigned the Unix Time value of 0. This is what is know as the Unix Epoch.<\/em><\/p>\nfunction ConvertTo-Epoch ([datetime]$InputEpoch) {\n [datetime]$Epoch = '1970-01-01 00:00:00'\n [int]$Ctime = \"\"\n\n $Ctime = (New-TimeSpan -Start $Epoch -End $InputEpoch).TotalSeconds\n return $Ctime\n}\n\n$a = ConvertTo-Epoch (get-date)\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"