string(TIMESTAMP timestamp "[%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S] %s" UTC) string(TIMESTAMP unix_time "%s") string(TIMESTAMP year "%Y" UTC) string(TIMESTAMP days "%j" UTC) # Doing proper date calculations here to verify unix timestamps # could be error prone. # At the very least use some safe lower and upper bounds to # see if we are somewhere in the right region. math(EXPR years_since_epoch "${year} - 1970") math(EXPR lower_bound "((${years_since_epoch} * 365) + ${days}) * 86400") math(EXPR upper_bound "((${years_since_epoch} * 366) + ${days}) * 86400") if(unix_time GREATER lower_bound AND unix_time LESS upper_bound) message("~${unix_time}~") else() message(FATAL_ERROR "${timestamp} unix time not in expected range [${lower_bound}, ${upper_bound}]") endif()