Unix timestamp conversion to human readable representation ...

Hi,
I map unix timestamps from MaxDB to the controller context of Web Dynpro and display the results in a table. Is there a smart way to convert the timestamps to human readable date and time? Maybe some way to manipulate the table values with a function before they are written ..?
For now, I create a new node in the context and manually set each value with the according date/time representation ... but thats pretty cumbersome.
Thank you very much for your help!
Cheers,
boris

Hi Boris,
Check http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
Date currentTime_1 = new Date(longUnixTimestamp);
String dateString = formatter.format(currentTime_1);
I would suggest you to create a calculated attribute under the same node as initial timestamp value and return a result of SimpleDateFormat.format().
Best regards, Maksim Rashchynski.

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