giza

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-module(giza_datetime).

-author("Kevin A. Smith <kevin@hypotheticalabs.com>").

-define(EPOCH_BASE, 62167219200).

-export([to_timestamp/1, from_timestamp/1]).

%% @spec to_timestamp(Now) -> Result
%%       Now = {integer(), integer(), integer()}
%%       Result = number()
%% @doc Encode the tuple returned from erlang:now/0 into a Unix epoch timestamp
to_timestamp({_, _, _}=Now) ->
  to_timestamp(calendar:now_to_universal_time(Now));

%% @spec to_timestamp(DateTime) -> Result
%%       DateTime = {{integer(), integer(), integer()}, {integer(), integer(), integer()}}
%%       Result = number()
%% @doc Encode an Erlang datetime tuple into a Unix epoch timestamp
to_timestamp(DateTime) ->
  TS = calendar:datetime_to_gregorian_seconds(DateTime),
  TS - ?EPOCH_BASE.

%% @spec from_timestamp(EpochTimestamp) -> Result
%%       EpochTimestamp = number()
%%       Result = {{integer(), integer(), integer()}, {integer(), integer(), integer()}}
%% @doc Convert an Unix epoch timestamp into the equivalent Unix datetime tuple
from_timestamp(EpochTimestamp) ->
  calendar:gregorian_seconds_to_datetime(EpochTimestamp + ?EPOCH_BASE).