Date to milliseconds / milliseconds to date

Question

I have a date in milliseconds. obtained with something like:

SELECT EXTRACT(MILLISECONDS FROM NOW())

How do I revert to a date again?

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Answer 1

EXTRACT(MILLISECONDS ...) gets you (per documentation) ...

The seconds field, including fractional parts, multiplied by 1000. Note that this includes full seconds.

Just test with:

SELECT now(), EXTRACT(MILLISECONDS FROM NOW()) AS millisec;

The rest is in the manual as well:

epoch

For timestamp with time zone values, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (can be negative); for date and timestamp values, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 local time; for interval values, the total number of seconds in the interval

SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE '2001-02-16 20:38:40.12-08');
*Result: 982384720.12*

SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM INTERVAL '5 days 3 hours');
*Result: 442800*

Here is how you can convert an epoch value back to a time stamp:

SELECT TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE 'epoch' + 982384720.12 * INTERVAL '1 second';

(The to_timestamp function encapsulates the above conversion.)

Answer 2

EXTRACT doesn't get you date in milliseconds. I think that should work:

SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM NOW()) * 1000;
SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP(EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM NOW()))

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