The Chronosphere • Room 2

Time Formatting

Raw timestamp strings often need to be converted to Epoch time (seconds since 1970) for math calculations.

`strptime` converts a String to an Epoch Time integer.

`strftime` converts an Epoch Time integer into a formatted String.

Extracting Epoch

| eval epoch_time = strptime(log_time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

Knowledge Check

Prove your understanding to clear the room (Rewards XP)

Drag items to their correct zone (or tap item then tap zone on mobile)

"2026-03-30" -> 1774880000

1774880000 -> "Mar 30, 2026"

Used to perform mathematical date offsets

Used to display timestamps elegantly in a dashboard

strptime

strftime