Re: Trouble with UNIX TimeStamps

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 08:49:58 -0500,
  Jonathan Chum <jchum@aismedia.com> wrote:
>
> The table column, ticket_starters.ticket_time_start is an INT type which
> contains a UNIX timestamp. I did not see anywhere in the Interactive docs
> how'd I convert the UNIX timestamp into a timestamp type so I can extract
> the day name. I'd rather not use PostGreSQL's timestamp types and just
> convert the database over to it since much of the programming utilizes the
> UNIX timestamp.  Any ideas?

One way to do this is:
area=> select to_char('epoch'::timestamp + (1040999196 || ' seconds')::interval,'Day');
  to_char
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 Friday
(1 row)