Make default timestamps in Unix Epoch, not RFC3339 format

Hi (again)!,

I was reading the documentation on influx, and it says that for HTTP requests, I can include the query param epoch=ns to retrieve my data with time in some epoch format like 1503604775 instead of 2017-08-24T19:59:35.000Z. However, when reading the node-influx docs, it seems to only mention a precision option without allowing me to convert to the epoch format that I desire. Is there a way to retrieve the time’s in epoch format using node-influx?

Thanks! Nolan

[BradfordMedeiros]

@brainsea Great library super awesome. This is the influx library people are coming to as the default node library for influx. Great job.

With that, I don’t understand why you’re transforming the result via the grammar file. To me it seems like you’re needlessly transforming the data. The way the code is written, it seems like it would make sense to potentially pass a custom data conversion function, but converting the raw result to a iso date object seems very peculiar.

Great job guys, super great job. Very great. But would you guys be open to passing the raw epoch result forward instead of adding the extra layer of translation? Would also be faster for bigger queries. Pretty sure most people are coming to this library and asking themselves why they’re time data isn’t matching the influxdb form.

[bencevans]

PR welcome 😃