Question

I have a datetime field(P_DT) and I would like to return all results where P_DT is greater then an input unix timestamp.

Does Oracle have any built in functions that can help?

In my searchs I find resuts for DateTime to Unix but no Unix to DateTime…

Answer 1

There are no built-in functions. But it’s relatively easy to write one. Since a Unix timestamp is the number of seconds since January 1, 1970

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION unix_ts_to_date( p_unix_ts IN NUMBER )
  RETURN DATE
IS
  l_date DATE;
BEGIN
  l_date := date '1970-01-01' + p_unix_ts/60/60/24;
  RETURN l_date;
END;

which you can see being called

SQL> select unix_ts_to_date( 1336822620 ) from dual;

UNIX_TS_TO_DATE(133
-------------------
2012-05-12 11:37:00