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What is the best way to convert between date, hours, min, seconds to Unix timestamp in milliseconds in Arduino? I need to have this conversion, since I'm using RTC (date, hours, min, secs etc) and communicating Unix timestamp over BLE

I found some snippet of codes online, but have not tested it extensively yet. 

  byte second = epoch%60; epoch /= 60;
  byte minute = epoch%60; epoch /= 60;
  byte hour   = epoch%24; epoch /= 24;

  unsigned int years = epoch/(365*4+1)*4; epoch %= 365*4+1;
  unsigned int year;
  for (year=3; year>0; year--)
  {
      if (epoch >= days[year][0])
          break;
  }

  unsigned int month;
  for (month=11; month>0; month--)
  {
      if (epoch >= days[year][month])
          break;
  }

  year  = years+year;
  month = month+1;
  unsigned int day   = epoch - days[year][month]+1;

  unsigned int weekday  = (dayOfMonth += month < 3 ? year-- : year - 2, 23*month/9 + dayOfMonth + 4 + year/4- year/100 + year/400)%7;

And to convert to Unix timestamp:

unsigned long epoch = (((year/4*(365*4+1)+days[year%4][month]+dayOfMonth)*24+hour)*60+minute)*60+second;

Are there any library in Arduino that implement this? I would trade off reliability over size of the program.

VE7JRO
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Dzung Nguyen
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I think that the two most used libraries are the Adafruit RTClib and the pjrc.com TimeLib. They both have functions to convert the epoch, and they both are reliable. But both lack the timezone and the DaylightSavingTime. I think you find the pjrc.com TimeLib just slightly more suitable to handle the epoch time (which is a 32-bit unsigned long defined as 'time_t').

Jot
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There is a standard way of doing those conversions in C, which is through the functions defined in <time.h>. This API being standard, you can test it in your computer. Recent versions of the avr-libc support this: see time.h in avr-libc. These functions can handle local time if you provide a function implementing the DST rules: see set_dst(). Examples are provided for US and EU rules.

Edgar Bonet
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Here's an example to convert seconds (Unix time) to Date & Time using TimeLib.h:

#include <TimeLib.h>

unsigned long offset_days = 3;    // 3 days
unsigned long t_unix_date1, t_unix_date2;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  t_unix_date1 = 1564398600;
  Serial.print("t_unix_date1: ");
  Serial.println(t_unix_date1);
  offset_days = offset_days * 86400;    // convert number of days to seconds
  t_unix_date2 = 1564398600 + offset_days;
  Serial.print("t_unix_date2: ");
  Serial.println(t_unix_date2);
  printf("Date1: %4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n", year(t_unix_date1), month(t_unix_date1), day(t_unix_date1), hour(t_unix_date1), minute(t_unix_date1), second(t_unix_date1));
  printf("Date2: %4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n", year(t_unix_date2), month(t_unix_date2), day(t_unix_date2), hour(t_unix_date2), minute(t_unix_date2), second(t_unix_date2));
}

void loop() {



}
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