UNIX_SECONDS

Overview

The UNIX_SECONDS() function returns a given timestamp to a UNIX timestamp in seconds, from 1970-01-01 00:00:00-00. Its syntax is illustrated below:

SELECT UNIX_SECONDS(TIMESTAMP)

Its input type is a TIMESTAMP expression, and the return data type is BIGINT representing time in seconds.

Examples

Case #1: Basic UNIX_SECONDS() function

The below example uses the UNIX_SECONDS() function to convert a given timestamp into a UNIX timestamp in seconds:

SELECT UNIX_SECONDS(TIMESTAMP "2008-12-25 15:30:00+00") AS unix_secondsvalues;

The final output will be as follows:

+-----------------------------+
| unix_secondsvalues          |
+-----------------------------+
| 1230219000.000000           |
+-----------------------------+

Case #2: UNIX_SECONDS() function using columns

Let’s suppose we have a table named **time_example **with the following timestamp values in the time_stampvalues column:

CREATE TABLE time_example (
  time_stampvalues timestamp
);

INSERT INTO time_example VALUES 
('2022-12-25 13:30:00'),
('2020-09-25 07:25:00'),
('2008-12-25 15:30:00'),
('2021-10-02 06:30:00');

SELECT * FROM time_example;

The above query will return the following table:

+-------------------------+
| time_stampvalues        | 
+-------------------------+
| 2022-12-25 13:30:00     |
| 2020-09-25 07:25:00     |
| 2008-12-25 15:30:00     |
| 2021-10-02 06:30:00     | 
+-------------------------+

1. We want to convert all timestamp values into UNIX timestamp values in seconds. To do that, we have to run the following query:

SELECT time_stampvalues, UNIX_SECONDS(time_stampvalues)
AS time_secondsvalues
FROM time_example;

2. The output displays all the timestamp entries of the table in the time_stampvalues column and the converted UNIX seconds timestamp entries in the column time_secondsvalues.

+-------------------------+-----------------------+
| time_stampvalues        | time_secondsvalues    |
+-------------------------+-----------------------+
| 2022-12-25 13:30:00     | 1671975000.000000     |
| 2020-09-25 07:25:00     | 1601018700.000000     |
| 2008-12-25 15:30:00     | 1230219000.000000     |
| 2021-10-02 06:30:00     | 1633156200.000000     |
+-------------------------+-----------------------+