Question

I’m trying to create a list and i’m being stumped.
So I have a table that with a start_date field that holds Unix Timestamps for the date.
I’m trying to query the table and extract the date from the timestamp, then any result with that date will be under that day and so on. Almost like a calendar with events on it in list view.

I’m doing this with PostgreSQL and PHP. Not sure how to write that query. I see functions like extract, date_part etc for PostgreSQL however, still unsure how to get the correct query(s).

Any help or examples would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Simplest / fastest way to extract a date from a Unix epoch:

SELECT to_timestamp(my_epoch_ts)::date;

Example:

SELECT to_timestamp(1349118398)::date

Result:

2012-10-01

That’s making use of the to_timestamp() function, followed by a cast to date: ::date.

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