Internal Date Format Used in DSS Internal json files

[raviagrawal]

Hi,

I am creating a R script to read the dataiku project metadata from project path itself i.e. /DATA_DIR/config/projects/project_nm/params.json file. I am not able to understand the date forma used in the file i.e. 1581031993308. Could you please suggest what is this date format and if you have handy format function in R for this it would be very helpful ?

[Clément_Stenac · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This is a UNIX timestamp, i.e. the number of milliseconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

There are many ways to parse this in R:

• In base package: as.POSIXct(1581031993308/1000, origin="1970-01-01", timezone="GMT")
• With anytime: anytime(1581031993308/1000)
• With lubridate: as_datetime(1581031993308/1000)

[raviagrawal]

Thanks Clement !! That solves my problem.

[Ankur5289]

@Clément_Stenac  suppose we do not want the date to be transformed into this DSS defined date format in json file, what steps we should take?