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#InfluxDB : readable timestamps in the CLI

Time-series database InfluxDB provides a nice CLI, similar to what is available for many other databases.
One key feature of the interaction with time series databases is to work a lot with time, so it comes a little bit surprising that InfluxDB displays time as nanoseconds timestamp, like the following:

892482496000000000

To have human-readable timestamps invoke the CLI as the following:

$influx -precision rfc3339

or type the following command at the CLI propmpt:

> precision rfc3339

The timestamp will then look like:

1998-04-13T15:48:16Z

better right? 🙂

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