Re: [libdbi-users] UNIX Timestamp - DATE to UTC conversion

2008-11-19 Thread Toby Thain
On 19-Nov-08, at 8:42 AM, Ken Ramsay wrote: > > Thanks guys, > > MySQL defines the field as a DATETIME , so the return type is time_t. No; you are using an expression, not the column, so the result type is indeed BIGINT, as Markus surmised (his explanation was correct, as far as I can determ

Re: [libdbi-users] UNIX Timestamp - DATE to UTC conversion

2008-11-19 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Quoting Ken Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Thanks guys, > > MySQL defines the field as a DATETIME , so the return type is time_t. As > far as I could find out, there is no helper funtion to convert this into > secs from 1 Jan 1970 , so I got around it by using the difftime() call > and subtractin

Re: [libdbi-users] UNIX Timestamp - DATE to UTC conversion

2008-11-19 Thread Ken Ramsay
Thanks guys, MySQL defines the field as a DATETIME , so the return type is time_t. As far as I could find out, there is no helper funtion to convert this into secs from 1 Jan 1970 , so I got around it by using the difftime() call and subtracting the returned value from 1/1/1970. difftime() retur