Question

I’m experimenting/learning with java and json. I’m trying to make my own data for a json parser and I can’t figure out what datatype the example data it gives me is. I think it’s a datetime, but I don’t know how to get my date (regular format) to the json date format. I’m coding the example using PHP.

Jsonp Example Data:

[1110844800000,178.61],
[1110931200000,175.60],
[1111017600000,179.29],

My Date and Data format:

2012-03-01 18:21:31,42
2012-03-01 18:22:31,46
2012-03-02 18:21:31,40

Does anyone know if the 13 digit date/time json above is a datetime specific to java or json? And if so, how to get my data to that format?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It looks like the Javascript version of Unix time, which is really just Unix time in milliseconds rather than seconds.

Divide your 13-digit numbers by 1000 and run them through this site to verify: http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm