The better solution would be to make the unix_timestamp function ignore the
milliseconds (or round off)

That may run into the HIVE versus Drill



On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Christopher Matta <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's kind of annoying, would it make sense to support casting a timestamp
> to an INT? That seems like it might be the most straightforward.
>
> Chris Matta
> [email protected]
> 215-701-3146
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Andries Engelbrecht <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Can use unix_timestamp, challenge is that Drill timestamp has millisec
> > that causes issues. SO you can truncate the millisec.
> >
> > I.e.
> >
> > select to_timestamp(1432912733),
> > unix_timestamp(substr(to_timestamp(1432912733),1,19)) from
> `sys`.`version`;
> >
> >
> > +------------------------+-------------+
> > |         EXPR$0         |   EXPR$1    |
> > +------------------------+-------------+
> > | 2015-05-29 15:18:53.0  | 1432912733  |
> > +------------------------+——————+
> >
> >
> > If you don’t truncate the millsec it causes an error. Perhaps there is
> > another function that can handle millisec and not require the string
> > function.
> >
> >
> > select to_timestamp(1432912733), unix_timestamp(to_timestamp(1432912733))
> > from `sys`.`version`;
> >
> > Error: SYSTEM ERROR: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid format:
> > "2015-05-29 15:18:53.000" is malformed at ".000”
> >
> > —Andries
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 15, 2015, at 7:18 AM, Christopher Matta <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a way to convert a timestamp string to unix time?
> > >
> > > Chris Matta
> > > [email protected]
> > > 215-701-3146
> >
> >
>

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