Question

I have a date/time field from a shopping cart API feed, but I don’t know what format it is in and I don’t have access to the database.

What could [1252457867] be for a date?
These dates are all within the last couple weeks

Any ideas?

Answer 1

That looks like seconds elapsed since Jan. 1st, 1970 12:00AM.

Use this function to get the date:

var baseDate = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0);
var transactionDate = baseDate.AddSeconds(1252457867);

This will output {9/9/2009 12:57:47 AM} PST

**EDIT: **
If you need UTC:

var utcDate = baseDate.AddSeconds(1252457867).ToUniversalTime();

This outputs {9/9/2009 7:57:47 AM}

–Adam