Human readable formatted timestamps

[abh]

It'd be nice with an option to format timestamps in some human readable format.

[Dieterbe]

agreed.
is this something that the influxdb think would make sense to implement in the server, though?
something like select date(time, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'), sequence_number, value from foo?
if not, we can do it in influx-cli, but it seems to make sense to implement it serverside, so it works in all clients, and you could also easily do select time, date(time) to see the original timestamp and human readable next to each other. doing this in the client gets cumbersome.

cc @jvshahid @pauldix

[abh]

I think the server should just have an API and the applications should do the formatting. It doesn't make sense to me to make the server have UI features.

[Dieterbe]

implemented!