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Unix Timestamp (seconds)

Seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. The standard epoch representation used in most programming languages and systems.

Unix Timestamp (seconds)

datetime.epoch.unix_seconds

Seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. The standard epoch representation used in most programming languages and systems.

Domain
datetime
Category
epoch
Casts to
TIMESTAMP
Scope
Universal

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "1705312200"
→ datetime.epoch.unix_seconds

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT finetype('1705312200');
-- → 'datetime.epoch.unix_seconds'
Cast expression
to_timestamp({col}::BIGINT)
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS TIMESTAMP) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'datetime.epoch.unix_seconds';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.epoch.unix_seconds
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.epoch.unix_seconds",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Seconds since 1970-01-01 00: 00: 00 UTC. The standard epoch representation used in most programming languages and systems.",
  "examples": [
    "1705312200",
    "1577836799",
    "1000000000"
  ],
  "maxLength": 10,
  "minLength": 10,
  "pattern": "^\\d{10}$",
  "title": "Unix Timestamp (seconds)",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "TIMESTAMP",
  "x-finetype-transform": "to_timestamp({col}::BIGINT)"
}

Examples

170531220015778367991000000000

Aliases

unix_timestamptimestamp

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