provide epoch time (integer) instead timestamp string

[toralf]

Current Terraform Version

$ terraform version
Terraform v0.12.24

Use-cases

Calculate diff eg.:

let "diff = $(date +%s) - $epochtime"

Attempted Solutions

Proposal

References

[smutel]

Or add sequence in formatdate function to be able to convert it in epoch ?

[toralf]

Or add sequence in formatdate function to be able to convert it in epoch ?

better: "do not convert it from epoch into a string" :-)

[crw]

Thank you for your continued interest in this issue.

Terraform version 1.8 launches with support of provider-defined functions. It is now possible to implement your own functions! We would love to see this implemented as a provider-defined function.

Please see the provider-defined functions documentation to learn how to implement functions in your providers. If you are new to provider development, learn how to create a new provider with the Terraform Plugin Framework. If you have any questions, please visit the Terraform Plugin Development category in our official forum.

We hope this feature unblocks future function development and provides more flexibility for the Terraform community. Thank you for your continued support of Terraform!

[austinvalle]

Hey everyone 👋🏻 ,

The hashicorp/time provider has just released a new rfc3339_parse function in v0.11 which should allow you to grab the unix time (along with other data about an RFC3339 timestamp, example below using the built-in plantimestamp() function).

You can test this out now with Terraform v1.8.0-beta1 or wait for the upcoming v1.8.0 release.

# Configuration using provider functions must include required_providers configuration.
terraform {
  required_providers {
    time = {
      source  = "hashicorp/time"
      version = "0.11.1"
    }
  }
  # Provider functions require Terraform 1.8 and later.
  required_version = ">= 1.8.0"
}

locals {
  plan_time = provider::time::rfc3339_parse(plantimestamp())
}

output "unix" {
  value = local.plan_time.unix
}

 $ terraform plan

Changes to Outputs:
  + unix = 1710201187

If you run into any problems with the new function, please create an issue over in the time provider issue tracker, thanks!

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