Frequently we may have items that come through as a timestamp or a date/time string. We currently have to write scripts / ingest the data in a different way to bring that in as an epoch to do conditional evaluations on it.

It would be nice if there was a built in function to parse a timestamp, so you can do math on it. So for example:

 

Jul 10 20:49:36 2027 GMT -> converted to an epoch, so in the trigger condition we can call math on it.

 

Use case:

SSL Certificate timestamps less than 30 days from expiring. OpenSSL brings them back in the timestamp above.