Turn today's date into a unix timestamp

Hi there,

I'm looking to retreive the current time and date, round it to the elapsing hour, and turn it into a UNIX timestamp.

I guess I can use this to turn the date into a timestamp :

using Toybox.Time;
var now = new Time.Moment(Time.now().value()); // UNIX epoch 631148400

However I struggle in finding an easy way to make round it to the elapsing hour :
eg. If the current time is 15h32, I would like to change it to 15h00. Then get the timestamp for the full date and modified time.

Any advice?

Cheers,

Nicolas

0 jim_m_58 over 3 years ago

There's probably a cleaner way to do this, but a unix timestamap is the number of seconds since Jan 1,1970, 00:00 UTC.

So what you want to do is subtract the minutes and seconds

var ts=new Time.Moment(unixTime);
var ts2=Time.Gregorian.info(ts, Time.FORMAT_MEDIUM);
unixTime=unixTime-(ts2.min*60)-ts2.sec;

0 jim_m_58 over 3 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

var unixTime=Time.now().value();

0 Nico85 over 3 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thanks Jim, I'll give it a go ;)
Nico