Function to convert unix timestamp to DateTime?

[justinwoo]

It's just a combination of existing functions, I guess, but could be nice to have as a "go to solution"

[garyb]

Isn't that toDateTime in Data.DateTime.Instant?

[paulyoung]

I've been using parse from purescript-js-date and then toDateTime.

I opening purescript-contrib/purescript-js-date#15 about how parse is somewhat unsafe.

[paulyoung]

To clarify; the toDateTime I referenced is from Data.JSDate, not this package.

[hdgarrood]

If "unix timestamp" is meant in the sense of "an int32 number of seconds since midnight, Jan 1, 1970", then this function is essentially toDateTime as @garyb pointed out. If "unix timestamp" is meant in the sense of the string output of the unix date command, e.g.

Fri 25 Sep 12:51:49 BST 2020

then this is out of scope for this library, according to the readme. Should we close this?

[JordanMartinez]

Sure.