robreeves / epochis

A CLI to convert offsets from epoch to human readable dates

epochis

A CLI to convert offsets from epoch to human readable dates

Usage

$ epochis --help
Usage
	epochis {date}{unit}
Example
	epochis 604m
Supported Units
	m:  months since epoch
	d:  days since epoch
	s:  seconds since epoch
	ms: milliseconds since epoch

Examples

# months since epoch
$ epochis 604m
2020-05

# days since epoch
$ epochis 18409d
2020-05-26

# seconds since epoch
$ epochis 1590537600s
2020-05-26 00:00:00

# milliseconds since epoch
$ epochis 1590537600ms
2020-05-26 00:00:00.000

Timezone support

All dates are in UTC. Timezone support may be added in the future.

Why doesn't this use third-party libraries?

There are plenty of libraries to choose from for functionality such as CLI args parsing so why didn't I use them? This project is just for fun so why not? I like to practice by writing functionality from scratch.

Dev Notes

To install locally as standalone CLI

python setup.py install

To upload to pypi

python setup.py sdist
twine upload dist/*

To run unit tests

python -m unittest