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  IngoRM Administrator, Moderator, Employee, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, RapidMiner Certified Expert, Community Manager, RMResearcher, Member, University Professor Posts: 1,751 RM Founder

  November 2016

  Hi,

   

  That is actually pretty tough.  Originally I thought, that you can just convert the ticks into milliseconds and convert this into a date object (see process below).  But the problem is that this does not account for DST, leap seconds etc. which means that in aggregate you are roughly 4 weeks off :smileysad:

   

  I posted the process for educational reasons but this might not something you can easily solve without calling an external .Net routine (which is possible, e.g. with a command line call done by the operator "Execute Program").

   

  Cheers,

  Ingo

   

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><process version="7.3.000">
    <context>
      <input/>
      <output/>
      <macros/>
    </context>
    <operator activated="true" class="process" compatibility="7.3.000" expanded="true" name="Process">
      <process expanded="true">
        <operator activated="true" class="generate_data_user_specification" compatibility="7.3.000" expanded="true" height="68" name="Generate Data by User Specification" width="90" x="112" y="34">
          <list key="attribute_values">
            <parameter key="dot_net_date" value="634019213109374850"/>
          </list>
          <list key="set_additional_roles"/>
        </operator>
        <operator activated="true" class="generate_attributes" compatibility="7.3.000" expanded="true" height="82" name="Generate Attributes" width="90" x="246" y="34">
          <list key="function_descriptions">
            <parameter key="dot_net_date" value="(dot_net_date/10000)-(1970*365*24*60*60*1000)"/>
          </list>
        </operator>
        <operator activated="true" class="numerical_to_date" compatibility="7.3.000" expanded="true" height="82" name="Numerical to Date" width="90" x="380" y="34">
          <parameter key="attribute_name" value="dot_net_date"/>
        </operator>
        <connect from_op="Generate Data by User Specification" from_port="output" to_op="Generate Attributes" to_port="example set input"/>
        <connect from_op="Generate Attributes" from_port="example set output" to_op="Numerical to Date" to_port="example set input"/>
        <connect from_op="Numerical to Date" from_port="example set output" to_port="result 1"/>
        <portSpacing port="source_input 1" spacing="0"/>
        <portSpacing port="sink_result 1" spacing="0"/>
        <portSpacing port="sink_result 2" spacing="0"/>
      </process>
    </operator>
  </process>

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