Question

I am parsing an SQLite database using the PowerShell SQLite module, and a couple of the return values are created and modified, both of which are in Unix time.

What I would like to do is somehow convert that into “human time”. I have removed some of the other SQL queries for ease of reading.

Import-Module SQLite
mount-sqlite -name GoogleDrive -dataSource E:\Programming\new.db
$cloud_entry = Get-ChildItem GoogleDrive:\cloud_entry

foreach ($entry in $cloud_entry)
{
    $entry.created
}

The output looks like a large column of Unix timestamps:

1337329458

Update: I ultimately went with the following:

$ctime = $entry.created
[datetime]$origin = '1970-01-01 00:00:00'
$origin.AddSeconds($ctime)

Answer 1

See Convert a Unix timestamp to a .NET DateTime.

You can easily reproduce this in PowerShell.

$origin = New-Object -Type DateTime -ArgumentList 1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0
$whatIWant = $origin.AddSeconds($unixTime)