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Asked: 2026-05-23T15:21:44+00:00

I’m using ObjectiveFlickr to retrieve a collection of photos from Flickr. The dates are

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I’m using ObjectiveFlickr to retrieve a collection of photos from Flickr. The dates are returned as strings like “1309695647“.

What are these numbers? Milliseconds? I can’t figure out how to define a date format to convert them into NSDate objects using NSDateFormatter 🙁

The Flickr documentation doesn’t help and I can’t find anything on google 🙁

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  1. Editorial Team

    The high probability is that these dates are regular timestamps (unsigned int, number of seconds since January 1, 1970). See below:

    http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.dates.html

    Posted dates

    The ‘posted’ date represents the time
    at which the photo was uploaded to
    Flickr. This is set at the time of
    upload.

    The posted date is always passed
    around as a unix timestamp, which is
    an unsigned integer specifying the
    number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970
    GMT.

    All posted dates are passed around in
    GMT and it’s up to the application
    provider to format them using the
    relevant viewer’s timezone.

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