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Converting esriFieldTypeDate numeric value to a proper DateTime value

SanthoshKumar3 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:08:03 GMT

ArcGIS REST service is returning the value of a date column as 1185840000000.

Can anyone tell me how in this world that can be converted to a proper date time in C#?

Re: Converting esriFieldTypeDate numeric value to a proper DateTime value

RahulMetangale1 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:15:32 GMT

sansan,

The date value you mentioned is epoch time,which is defined as the number of seconds since midnight (UTC) on 1st January 1970.

public DateTime FromUnixTime(long unixTime) {     var epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);     return epoch.AddSeconds(unixTime); }

Re: Converting esriFieldTypeDate numeric value to a proper DateTime value

SanthoshKumar3 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:19:56 GMT

Rahul,

Thanks for the explanation.
I just changed the AddSeconds to AddMilliSeconds and it worked like charm.

-Santhosh