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    <title>topic Re: Convert Get-Date into Unix EPOCH Format in VMware PowerCLI Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sorry, That was by mistake..&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 06:49:07 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>AmoghMaheshvip</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-02-13T06:49:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Convert Get-Date into Unix EPOCH Format</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/Convert-Get-Date-into-Unix-EPOCH-Format/m-p/501910#M15614</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I am trying to convert date into Unix epoch format as I need to insert data into influxdb with historic timestamp.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;(Get-Date $StartDate -UFormat '%s').Replace((Get-Culture).NumberFormat.NumberDecimalSeparator, '')&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;-&amp;gt; I am getting a value of 15 digits.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But I am not able to insert into influxdb because, as per &lt;A href="https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.9/guides/writing_data/" title="https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.9/guides/writing_data/"&gt;InfluxData | Documentation | Writing Data&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;date stamp should be in nanoseconds and is 19 digits.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So how can I get datestamp in nanoseconds and is in unix epoch format.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:08:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>AmoghMaheshvip</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-02-12T13:08:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Convert Get-Date into Unix EPOCH Format</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/Convert-Get-Date-into-Unix-EPOCH-Format/m-p/501911#M15615</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;The difference in length is due to the base you are using.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;With UFormat '%s' you are calculating "&lt;EM style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-family: segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', Segoe, 'Segoe WP', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Seconds&lt;/STRONG&gt; elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00&lt;/EM&gt;"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But you need nanoseconds, hence the longer number.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The following show the 2 methods.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV style="text-align: Left; font-family: Segoe UI; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12; color: #000000;"&gt;&lt;P style="font-family: Lucida Console; margin: 0 0 0 0; background-color: #ffffff;"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 16;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="color: #ff4500;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;$now&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; 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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:29:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/Convert-Get-Date-into-Unix-EPOCH-Format/m-p/501911#M15615</guid>
      <dc:creator>LucD</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-02-12T13:29:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Convert Get-Date into Unix EPOCH Format</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-PowerCLI-Discussions/Convert-Get-Date-into-Unix-EPOCH-Format/m-p/501912#M15616</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Excellent! InfluxDB is great and it's quite easy to get things going. Check out my github for example usage at:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://github.com/vmkdaily/vFlux-Stats-Kit" title="https://github.com/vmkdaily/vFlux-Stats-Kit"&gt;GitHub - vmkdaily/vFlux-Stats-Kit: PowerCLI scripts to gather VMware performance stats and write them to InfluxDB&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As for the timestamp I think you should be good to go now, but for completeness, this is how my scripts do it:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE __default_attr="plain" __jive_macro_name="code" class="_jivemacro_uid_15184551452163496 jive_macro_code jive_text_macro" data-renderedposition="134_8_1232_32" jivemacro_uid="_15184551452163496"&gt;&lt;P&gt;## nanoseconds since Unix epoch&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;[long]$timestamp = (([datetime]::UtcNow)-(Get-Date -Date '1/1/1970')).TotalMilliseconds * 1000000&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Note:&amp;nbsp; I used to do [int64], which worked fine, but now I do [long] for whatever reason. Maybe a recommendation from one of my million dollar script editors :smileygrin:&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Tip: I see you are already aware of PowerShell culture which is good.&amp;nbsp; When writing to InfluxDB you may observe that it prefers the PowerShell culture to be en-US or your stats that looks like '0,57' won't write when InfluxDB was expecting them to look like '0.57'.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;PS - Also check out VMware Wavefront as an alternative:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.wavefront.com/" title="https://www.wavefront.com/"&gt;https://www.wavefront.com/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:04:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>grasshopper</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-02-12T17:04:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Convert Get-Date into Unix EPOCH Format</title>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Really?&lt;BR /&gt;The guy repeats my answer, and gets the Correct Answer?!?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 06:27:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>LucD</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-02-13T06:27:04Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sorry, That was by mistake..&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 06:49:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>AmoghMaheshvip</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-02-13T06:49:07Z</dc:date>
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      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Sorry, nothing personal, but I see this happening way too often.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;People rewording answers.&lt;BR /&gt;It must be vExpert application time :smileygrin:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 07:12:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>LucD</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-02-13T07:12:58Z</dc:date>
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