oracle convert unix epoch time to date

To convert from milliseconds from epoch (assume epoch is Jan 1st 1970):

select to_date('19700101', 'YYYYMMDD') + ( 1 / 24 / 60 / 60 / 1000) * 1322629200000
from dual;

11/30/2011 5:00:00 AM

To convert that date back to milliseconds:

select (to_date('11/30/2011 05:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS') - to_date('19700101', 'YYYYMMDD')) * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
from dual;

1322629200000

If its seconds instead of milliseconds, just omit the 1000 part of the equation:

select to_date('19700101', 'YYYYMMDD') + ( 1 / 24 / 60 / 60 ) * 1322629200
from dual;

select (to_date('11/30/2011 05:00:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS') - to_date('19700101', 'YYYYMMDD')) * 24 * 60 * 60
from dual;

Hope that helps.

Another option is to use an interval type:

SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP('1970-01-01 00:00:00.0'
                   ,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF'
       ) + NUMTODSINTERVAL(1493963084212/1000, 'SECOND')
FROM dual;

It has this advantage that milliseconds won't be cut.

Here it is for both UTC/GMT and EST;

GMT  select (to_date('1970-01-01 00','yyyy-mm-dd hh24') +
     (1519232926891)/1000/60/60/24) from dual;

EST  select new_time(to_date('1970-01-01 00','yyyy-mm-dd hh24') + 
     (1519232926891)/1000/60/60/24, 'GMT', 'EST') from dual;

If your epoch time is stored as an integer..... And you desire the conversion to Oracle date format.

Step 1--> Add your epoch date (1462086000) to standard 01-jan-1970. 86400 is seconds in a 24 hour period.

*Select TO_DATE('01-jan-1970',   'dd-mon-yyyy') + 1462086000/86400 from dual*  
   **output is 5/1/2016 7:00:00 AM**

Step 2--> Convert it to a CHAR . This is needed for formatting before additional functions can be applied.

  *Select TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('01-jan-1970',   'dd-mon-yyyy') + 1462086000/86400 ,'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss') from dual*

   output is  2016-05-01 07:00:00

Step 3--> Now onto Timestamp conversion

Select to_timestamp(TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('01-jan-1970',   'dd-mon-yyyy') + 1462086000/86400 ,'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'), 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss') from dual

  output is 5/1/2016 7:00:00.000000000 AM

Step 4--> Now need the TimeZone, usage of UTC

Select from_tz(to_timestamp(TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('01-jan-1970',   'dd-mon-yyyy') + 1462086000/86400 ,'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'), 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'),'UTC')  from dual

     output is 5/1/2016 7:00:00.000000000 AM +00:00

Step 5--> If your timezone need is PST

 Select from_tz(to_timestamp(TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('01-jan-1970',   'dd-mon-yyyy') + 1462086000/86400 ,'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'), 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'),'UTC')  at time zone 'America/Los_Angeles' TZ from dual

           output is 5/1/2016 12:00:00.000000000 AM -07:00

Step 6--> Format the PST Timezone timestamp.

 Select to_Char(from_tz(to_timestamp(TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('01-jan-1970',   'dd-mon-yyyy') + 1462086000/86400 ,'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'), 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'),'UTC')  at time zone 'America/Los_Angeles' ,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') TZ from dual 

          output is  01-MAY-2016 00:00:00

Step 7--> And finally, if your column is date datatype

   Add to_DATE to the whole above Select.

I thought somebody would be interested in seeing an Oracle function version of this:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION unix_to_date(unix_sec NUMBER)
RETURN date
IS
ret_date DATE;
BEGIN
    ret_date:=TO_DATE('19700101','YYYYMMDD')+( 1/ 24/ 60/ 60)*unix_sec;
    RETURN ret_date;
END;
/

I had a bunch of records I needed dates for so I updated my table with:

update bobfirst set entered=unix_to_date(1500000000+a);

where a is a number between 1 and 10,000,000.

oracle convert unix epoch time to date

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