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what does the return value (long) of class com.ibm.team.build.client.ITeamBuildClient getBuildStartTime method represent


Marc St-Amour (313) | asked Apr 24 '17, 11:25 a.m.

what does the return value (long) of class com.ibm.team.build.client.ITeamBuildClient getBuildStartTime method represent


the return value I get is 1492799546626 ... does not seem to be UTC time ... what is value format?


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Marc St-Amour commented Apr 24 '17, 11:30 a.m.

sorry wrong class ... Interface com.ibm.team.build.common.model.IBuildResult getBuildStartTime method

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Kevin Ramer (4.5k8183200) | answered Apr 25 '17, 3:07 p.m.

That is "epoch time".  It is the value of unix time(3) function + milliseconds.   I'm pretty sure it can be "converted" using Java Calendar / date formatter.  ( Calendar.setTimeInMillis() )


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Marc St-Amour (313) | answered Apr 26 '17, 8:00 a.m.

 Thank you Kevin!


Turns out I just did a divide by 1000 on the return value for Git to accept it as a valid value for the rev-list command --since parameter ... 

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