Hacking the Trac Database

Unfortunately my Trac Server at work has been down for a number of days and I've had to manually log tickets in an Excel spreadsheet. The network team have finally fixed the issue and I've just finished importing the tickets using the excellent csv2trac.py Python program.

Unfortunately I need to adjust some of the dates which can be done easily using sqlite. Essentially log on the the trac database using the following command:

sqlite3 /path/to/trac/project/db

All dates and times in sqlite are stored as the number of seconds since 01-Jan-1970, therefore to subtract 5-days from the creation date you would run:

UPDATE ticket
SET     time = time - (5*24*60*60)
WHERE   id   = n