Question

Hi I was receiving responses from an API as JSON and loading it into my application. Everything imports fine except for a date that that a specific item was published on. The date is returned as a number which I never worked with before:

'date_created' : 1279643054

I tried using a normal DateTime.Parse() with no luck. Does anyone know how to parse this, or if anything what the name of this format is so I can do further research? Thanks.

Answer 1

It’s a UNIX Timestamp. Use this code to convert the timestamp to a DateTime object:

static DateTime ConvertFromUnixTimestamp(long timestamp)
{
    return new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0).AddSeconds(timestamp);
}