Hello,

the version 7.5 of the marvellous BaseX - database has the new function

    convert:dateTime-to-ms

This function is an ideal candidate to transform a fixed date like '2012-09-21T00:00:00' to the unix timestamp,
well it was designed for it.

1.    Therefore I would like to ask what a possible release date for version 7.5 could be, is it planned in rather in
weeks or month?

2.    I used

      (current-dateTime() - xs:dateTime("1970-01-01T00:00:00")) div xs:dayTimeDuration('PT0.001S') 

as a starting point, but so far attempts to somehow substitute

                current-dateTime() 

with

                xs:dateTime( '2012-09-21T00:00:00')

have not been successful. Just as a fall back if the current project becomes productive earlier than the BaseX version 7.5.


3.    It is rather easy to implement a function like convert:dateTime-to-ms in Java and use it via a Java Binding, but this
is politically not wanted within the project.

Thank you for your attention and with best regards

Andreas

 P. S.:  

 The BaseXGUI is a really smart tool. And sometimes I think it would enhance the productivity even further
 if it would support parentheses matching ...





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