Unix Timestamps and MySQL

Unix timestamps (the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970) can be converted online at:
http://www.unixtimestamp.com
Some example dates:
26 Feb 2006 19:37 1141000668
26 Feb 2007 19:37 1172536620
26 Feb 2008 19:37 1204072620
12 Aug 2007 12:00 1186934400
I had cause to prune some old records from MySQL by unix timestamp, which I did with:
USE `emaillog`;
DELETE FROM `deliveries` WHERE timestamp<1186934400;
19 million records can take some time to complete (>4 hours). It might be better to prune this stuff a little more regularly 😉

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