Mastering Dates on Einstein Analytics using Epochs / Tableau CRM

I have seen a lot of questions lately about how to handle and work with dates on Einstein Analytics. Handling dates that are formatted as strings or using only the hour part of a timestamp or filtering data using dates.

This guide will help you address those scenarios using Epochs or the “Unix Time”.

What’s “Epoch” or “Unix Time”?

Citing Wikipedia:

In computing, an epoch is a date and time from which a computer measures system time. Most…