Saturday, February 25, 2012

Problem converting UTC dates in dts

Can anyone help me convert UTC dates in a dts package? I have a db I need to transform, but all the dates are in utc format. Is there a function I can use in an ActiveX transformation script to convert, say, 38166, to a valid datetime value? There seems to be almost no documentation in using utc in SQL.How is that a UTC time?

http://www.dxing.com/utcgmt.htm|||I'll try...but for the record i dont think 38166 is a valid UTC date.
Please correct me if i'm wrong.

here is what i thougght UTC date looked like:

2004-07-01T16:15:30

SQL server CAST and CONVERT will handle this for you, by default.|||But your example does somewhat resemble a Julian date...|||But your example does somewhat resemble a Julian date...
1938?

or 2038?

But yeah it looks more julian..|||My vote is for 2008, since the Unix epoch is based on 1970.

-PatP|||I'll go with thta...(since I wrote a udf for that one once)...god damn toolbox...got to clean this damn thing out...

Wait a minute...|||i bet there'll be a party or 2 ~3:15 on Jan 19 2038

the end of the world as we know it.

:D|||you've got a julian date converting UDF?

Oooooo...i've wanted to do that but never had a project that required it.

Care to share??
:)|||I wrote one ages ago for military style Julian dates, and just posted it a day or two ago. Check here (http://www.dbforums.com/t1003180.html) for details.

-PatP|||thanks much.

sorry for the thread hijack chunky,
did you get a decent answer for the original post?

perhaps you could post an example of the date string you are dealing with, if not?

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