JMeter - how to convert a human readable date time into Unix timestamp

Question

How can human readable date time format(yyyy.mm.dd hh:mm:ss ) be converted into Unix timestamp?

For example I have following date 2019.07.12 08:00:00 that need to be converted into unix time format?

Is there a way to do this in JMeter?

Answer 1

Add a Flow Control Action and add in it a JSR223PreProcessor with this code

 def date = Date.parse("yyyy.MM.dd HH:mm:ss", yourDate)
vars.put("date", date.getTime().toString())

You can then use:

${date}

If using JMeter 5.3, add groovy-dateutil to lib folder of JMeter, due to this regression :

• https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64647